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Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it? In the suspenseful documentary BANANAS!*, filmmaker Fredrik Gertten sheds new light on the global politics of food.

In an intriguing way a BLOOMING BUSINESS shows the world of Jane, Oscar and Kennedy, who all depend some how on the huge flower farms in Naivasha, Kenya. A poetic, cinematic and poignant documentary in which director Ton van Zantvoort goes deep into the lives of the main characters. Is the smell of the imported rose so sweet indeed?

For several decades man have prepared for long voyages into space and to settle other planets. To secure survival on a long journey we need to “Bring Life to Space”, and scientists have been trying to copy Earth’s delicate ecological balances in small, sealed cycles, to prepare the production of sufficient and vital supplies of water, oxygen and food on a journey into space. This historical documentary takes us back to the 1960s and reveals unique footage from Russian experiments, where people were confined for one year in a sealed spaceship mock up.

La Gloria, a small town in the state of Veracruz, recently became the centre of the global media attention. It was here a 5 year old child became the first casualty of the global swine flu pandemic. Whilst the media and political focus however attested to the local conditions of impoverishment, away from the media glare another battle has been taking place as inhabitants of the Valley of Perote have waged a campaign against Granjas Carroll de Mexico - a company partly owned by Smithfield foods, accusing them of contaminating the local environment. Indeed, in spite of judicial proceedings, they still maintain their struggle against what they see to be the environmental injustices of the "laissez - faire" system.

Garbage Angels, odd life forms tell their tale of our society where everything seems to be disposable.