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When Elephants dance, the grass gets beaten| 25mins
Director: Jan van den Berg | Producer:
Focus Years: | Country: Netherlands
Synopsis:
Moon is a farmer in Cambodia, on a land an hour away from the Angkor Wat temples. But she also works in the healthcare sector. With the money she earns from that job, she buys rice for the whole family and pays the school of her sisters.
In the short film, she marries her fiancé, Bun San. They have no money for a traditional wedding, but with a lot of help and support from colleagues, friends and family, they manage to make it a true traditional party.
At the wedding, we get a picture of the dramatic situation of many small Cambodia family farms. Every day large foreign companies are buying more of the agricultural land. The promised job opportunities don’t happen and the farmers find themselves without land or income. Many of them travel to neighboring Thailand in search for a better life. The stories about the trip as an illegal migrant, exploitation and having to work with dangerous pesticides are heart-breaking.
Almost three-quarters of the available land for agriculture in Cambodia has been sold to companies that produce for export only. As this is disastrous for the local food production, the World Food Program supports vulnerable parts of the population with food supplies. In the mean time, the exile of farmers continues. Since 2003, more than 400,000 Cambodians have been chased off their lands as a result of land grabbing.
When Elephants dance, the grass gets beaten
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25mins
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