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The Illusion of Abundance

Environments & Ecologies • 58m
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Directed by Erika Gonzalez Ramirez, Matthieu Lietaert • Documentary • 2022 • 58 minutes

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Three women share a common goal: Carolina, Bertha and Maxima are leading today's fight against modern conquistadors. Whereas governments and corporations, trapped in a global race towards unlimited growth, need to get the cheapest raw materials, these three women tell us a story of tireless courage: how to keep fighting to protect nature when your life is at risk?

"Colonialism is not over!", said the environmental defenders Berta Caceres a few months before being murdered at her home. Every year 200 defenders are being killed worldwide. Two out of three in Latin America alone.

THE ILLUSION OF ABUNDANCE is not only a film about those who pay the high price of 'development', it is above all a film about the globalization of Carolina, Bertha and Maxima's environmental resistance and their conviction to hunt down transnational corporations, wherever they hide.

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