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The Green Lie

The Green Lie

97' 2018
dir.: Werner Boote

A behind-the-scenes of how products and companies are greenwashed.

Are green products a way to save the world from disaster or a clever marketing ploy to fuel consumption? Werner Boote's film analyzes the market for "green" goods - from groceries to electric cars. Traveling around the world, he looks behind the scenes of new, environmentally-friendly corporate images, exposing marketing strategies that exploit growing Western awareness of ecology to vault profits. The film shows how often simple social engineering tricks influence our perception of a given product as environmentally friendly. When did we let ourselves be persuaded that buying "consciously" can save the world? And that our commitment to the environment can come down to just that - consumer choices? 

Konrad Wirkowski

 

2019 HumanDoc FF 
2018 Viennale 
2018 Bergen IFF 
2018 Millennium Docs Against Gravity 
2018 CPH:DOX 
2018 Thessaloniki IFF 
2018 Berlinale 

watch from December 12
97' 2018 Austria
Director
Werner Boote
Cinematography
Dominik Spritzendorfer, Mario Hötschl
Editing
Gernot Grassl, Roland Buzzi
Production
e&a film
Online availability
Special collection - watch between December 12-31
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