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Saturday November 10 Black Gold U certificate 78 minutes
Regular Thame cinema goers may recall our screening of Nick and Mark’s short film about the coffee industry late in 2005. This is the feature length version of the same story. An articulate and arresting documentary that highlights the injustice and exploitation of Ethiopian coffee farmers, it follows Tadesse Meskela, a representative of a group of farmers, as he struggles to get a decent price for their beans. Scenes in Ethiopia, in which the farmers are reminded of just how cheap their labours are, are interspersed with stock exchange traders maximising profits for western buyers, fair trade talks floundering at the World Trade Organisation, and smug staff of ubiquitous coffee chains getting all warm and runny because of the lives that are being ‘touched’. If you don’t drink fair trade coffee, this might make you think again. And if you already support fair trade, this is nonetheless compelling viewing. Parts in Amharic with English subtitles.
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UK,
2007, Directed by Nick Francis and Mark Francis