Kalmar is a small town in the south of Sweden, facing problems of unemployment and a dwindling population. It really needed an economic boost. The local authorities signed an agreement with ambitious Chinese businessman Luo Jingxing, who planned to set up a commercial center in Kalmar. Here is an ideal globalization project, that unfortunately did […]

On June 30, 1960, the largest African colony Congo became independent of Belgium. The day before, Wednesday, June 29th, as the Belgian King Baudouin was being driven through Kinshasa, standing bolt upright next to the future president Kasavubu in a Cadillac convertible, he saluted the Belgian flag. At this very moment a young Congolese man […]

This documentary shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the Congo. Director Frank Poulsen travels to DR Congo to see the illegal mine industry with his own eyes. He gets access to Congo’s largest tin-mine, which is being controlled by different armed groups, and where children work for days in narrow […]

From the tea parties to healthcare and climate change, America’s conservative citizens revolted against President Obama’s reform agenda. But just how real were the roots of this supposedly grassroots uprising? Was it, in fact, an example of ‘astroturfing’, which is the practice of manufacturing citizens groups for the purpose of delivering corporate messages? Curious to […]

The story of the first international conference on Africa, which established its division amongst the European powers, and created Congo as a personal possession of the Belgian king. Both a reenactment and a documentary. DVD 9201 Distributor description: http://icarusfilms.com/new2011/ber.html