2024 Public Award Programme

 

The Pickers

The Pickers
Thursday 07.11.2024 | 19:45

Elke Sasse (Germany | 2024 | 80 minutes)

Language: Various, narration in German

Subtitles: German

Moderation Language: German

CINEMA ROOM

The Pickers is a journey to the European fields where our fruit and vegetables are grown: In southern Italy, Seydou from Mali picks oranges. He has no contract and is paid by the crate. He lives in a self-built hut in a settlement without water or electricity.

Blueberries in Portugal, olives in Greece, strawberries in Spain – one million migrants are currently working in European fields.

The pickers are the mobile workers who fill the baskets of our supermarkets, most of them without a contract or minimum wage, some without papers or with high debts to intermediaries. What we see gives what we eat every day a bitter taste: our daily fruit and vegetables are rooted in a system of exploitation.

No way out of this system? There is: Pape from Senegal produces fair oranges in southern Italy: “We don’t want to be seen as revolutionary, we want this to become the new normal!”

After the screening, director Elke Sasse and FAU Freiburg will answer questions about the film.


Note: Although no entrance fee is required, it is recommended to book in advance. Choose the film session you are interested in on our Filmfreeway platform (tickets are organised per film name and follow the chronological order of our festival). There are no assigned seats.  Please come half an hour before the session. We will give away the tickets that haven’t been collected 15 minutes before the session starts.









wheelchair access / Rollstuhlbefahrbar The cinema is accessible via a ramp.
need for assistance for toilets / hilfestellung There are also toilets accessible with a wheelchair. However assistance might be required since there are a few (heavy) doors to open to arrive to it.
hoeranlage Piktogramm The cinema room is equipped with an inductive sound system. We use two microphones for the discussion afterwards (one for the moderator and/ or speaker, one for the public).
Information about languages is provided above. We tend to provide live interpretation towards English or German when needed (it might be whispered). However live interpretation is harder to put into place when some speakers are taking part online.

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 No entrance fee is required. We invite our public to support the festival through a donation at the end of the sessions. You decide how much you want to give.