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 are suffering.

With people who offer solutions, they also show that water shortages are not a law of nature: In France, dams are being demolished to revive rivers, in an Egyptian oasis the inhabitants are experimenting with hydrophonics 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.

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 along their wastewater.

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But the film not only highlights problems, it also meets people with solutions: In France, dams are being demolished to revive rivers, in an Egyptian oasis the inhabitants are experimenting with hydrophonics and in India, the so-called "water man" uses a millennia-old technique to make rivers flow 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 at the same time hopeful.
Followed by a discussion with editor Nadine Niemann and author Manuel Daubenberger.

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

A cooperation between the Bremen Chamber of Employees and the city garden "Ab geht die Lucie" of the KulturPflanzen association. Supported by the Advisory Board Neustadt of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Sparkasse Bremen and the program "Climate Protection in Everyday Life" of the Senator for Environment, Climate and Science of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.