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BANANAS!*
 | QFT
Friday 16 April 9.15pm
£6.50/£6.00
|  | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Director: Fredrik Gertten / Sweden / 2009 / 80mins / Print source: Dogwoof Pictures | | | | | | 
| | | | | | | | A David and Goliath court-room drama like you’ve never seen before, in real time with real people. You may have heard of BANANAS!* the film, DOLE Food Company tried to legally ban it from being seen. Now’s your chance to see the story of one of the World’s largest fruit distributors and the effects their use of pesticides has on workers in their Nicaraguan banana plantations.
BANANAS!* is a suspenseful courtroom drama as Juan Dominguez identifies his first defendants to test a case against DOLE Food Company in an American court. It is evident from the beginning how ambitious their plans are, a wall of money and the best legal support sit opposite them.
One third of the production price of the average banana is used to purchase pesticides, pesticides that are now seriously damaging the health of many of the plantation’ workers.
Through this thrilling story, BANANAS!* tells a revelatory tale that highlights gross mis-management in the global food supply chain.
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