28th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
5 MARCH → 15 MARCH 2026
TRIBUTES: Current Issues: Globalization

Sweden 2005 73 Betacam SP Color
Barun Mitra, an ardent lobbyist for neo-liberal globalization, once presented the Indian alternative globalist Vandana Shiva with the Bullshit Award for Sustaining Poverty, because she was talking "bullshit" about the negative consequences of globalization. Shiva mockingly replied that "cow dung is the most beautiful material." In her ecological training institute "Navdanya" in India, which counts 20,000 members, the roof is made of cow dung. Starting there, the filmmakers follow the tireless activist for two years in her worldwide battle against the leaders of globalization. She attends the unsuccessful summit of the World Trade Organization in Cancun, Mexico, visits the Tibetan community in exile in Indian Dharmsala, and attends a meeting of the European Union in Copenhagen...