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Dokumentarfilm / Rubén Abruña / Deutschland, Schweiz / 2023 / 85 min / Deutsch / Nominierung Science & Media Awards 2023
Was geschieht eigentlich mit unserer Kacke? Stecken in ihr noch wertvolle Ressourcen? Regisseur Rubén Abruña hat auf der ganzen Welt nach Antworten gesucht.
Noch immer ist es illegal, menschliche Ausscheidungen zu kompostieren und als Dünger in der kommerziellen Landwirtschaft zu verwenden. Das muss sich ändern, findet Rubén Abruña. Denn herkömmliche Toiletten verbrauchen viel Trinkwasser, Meere leiden und Dünger wird knapp. Die Dokumentation von Rubén Abruña zeigt auf hoffnungsvolle Weise, was machbar ist.
Im Anschluss Filmgespräch:
Es ist einer unserer größten, jedoch kaum diskutierten Abfallströme. Alles, was Du über das Potenzial menschlicher “Abgaben” wissen musst und wie man den Kreislauf schließt.
Mit:
Rubén Abruña, Regisseur, Produzent
Valentin Thurn, Regisseur, Produzent, Thurnfilm
Dr. Ariane Krause, Projektkoordination, zirkulierBAR
Moderation: Dr. Patrick Hörl, Managing Director, Autentic
Sa 28.10. / 17:00 Uhr / Puschkino
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Documentary / Rubén Abruña / Germany, Switzerland / 2023 / 85 min / German / Nominated for Science & Media Awards 23
What happens to the food we digest after it leaves our bodies? Is it waste to be discarded or a resource to be reused? Looking for answers, director Rubén Abruña embarks on an investigative and entertaining quest through 16 cities across 4 continents.
He follows the poop trail from the long Parisian sewers to a huge wastewater treatment plant in Chicago. The presumed solution to use the semi-solid remains of the treatment process as a fertilizer proves to be a living nightmare, because they contain heavy metals and toxic PFAS chemicals.
Can excreta be used to grow food and ease the imminent fertilizer scarcity? He meets the Poop Pirates from Uganda who through work and songs teach people how to turn feces into safe fertilizer. In rural Sweden, an engineer shows him a dry toilet that makes fertilizer from urine.
In Hamburg and Geneva, he discovers residential complexes with localized treatment plants, not connected to sewers, that produce electricity and fertilizer from human excrements. In the end, the director finds answers to sustainably reuse human poop and pee that also increase global food security, environmental protection, and hygiene and mitigate climate change.
Followed by a film talk:
One of the largest waste streams in our current cycle, yet one of the least discussed.All you need to know about the potential of human “poop” and how to close the cycle.
With:
Rubén Abruña, director, producer
Valentin Thurn, director, producer, Thurnfilm
Dr. Ariane Krause, Project coordinator, zirkulierBAR
Moderation: Dr. Patrick Hörl, Managing Director, Autentic
Sat 28.10. / 17:00 / Puschkino
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