LUX Freilicht: Wohin die Flüsse verschwinden - Leben in der Wasserkrise

In the organizer's words:

Along six rivers on four continents, the documentary "Where the rivers are disappearing to" explores the question of why the existential resource of water is becoming increasingly scarce and who is responsible for this.

At 70 percent, agriculture is the main consumer of fresh water. And a large proportion of this goes into the production of animal feed. Our excessive meat consumption is partly responsible for the fact that mighty rivers such as the Spanish Ebro or the Colorado in the USA and Mexico are drying up. Large agricultural corporations earn billions from this. Filmmakers Manuel Daubenberger and Felix Meschede talk to those responsible and those who suffer.

The overuse of water often goes hand in hand with the pollution of this vital resource. Europe has outsourced its dirtiest industries to countries such as India. Around 20 percent of global water pollution is caused by the textile industry. The documentary provides rare insights into Indian factories and life alongside their wastewater.

But the film not only highlights problems, it also meets people with solutions: In France, dams are being torn down to revive rivers, in an Egyptian oasis, residents are experimenting with hydrophony and in India, the so-called "water man" is using a millennia-old technique to get rivers flowing again in the middle of the desert that had dried up for decades.

"Where the Rivers Flow" is a documentary that is thought-provoking, frustrating and hopeful at the same time.

D 2024, Director: Felix Meschede, Manuel Daubenberger, 90 min.

Followed by a discussion with the editor Nadine Niemann and the authors Manuel Daubenberger and Felix Meschede.
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