India has more farmers than any country in the world, and they are in a crisis that is unprecedented in human history. Every 30 minutes a farmer in India kills himself in despair. In a village at the center of the suicide epidemic, a farmer and his family struggle to keep his land and a teenage girl makes her first steps to become a journalist and tell the world about the crisis. Bitter Seeds raises questions about the human cost of genetically-modified agriculture and the future of how we grow things. This is the third film in Micha Peled’s globalization trilogy, following the award-winning Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town and China Blue. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.7/10 | |
Released: | September 1, 2011 | |
Runtime: | 88 min | |
Genres: | Documentary | |
Companies: | Independent Television Service | |
Cast: | Vandana Shiva Manjusha Ambarwar Ram Krishna Mahhav Shande | |
Crew: | Micha X. Peled | |
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