1. About CIJ Film Week

    About Film Week

    Over a week we show a selection of films followed by a question and answer session with the filmmaker.

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  2. Bahrain, the Forbidden Country

    Bahrain, the Forbidden Country
    Tuesday 15 January 2013
    France 2012
    Directors: Stephanie Lamorre
    Producers: Luc Hermann
    Language: French with English subtitles and voice-over
    Duration: 52 min
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  3. The Murder of the Honeybee

    The Murder of the Honeybee
    Wednesday 16 January 2013
    The Netherlands 2011
    Directors: Hetty Nietsch, researcher Manon Blaas
    Producers: Mascha Boogaard, Wendel Hesen
    Language: Dutch with English Subtitles
    Duration: 36 min
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  4. Bloodcoal

    Bloodcoal
    Thursday 17 January 2013
    The Netherlands 2010
    Directors: Sander Rietveld, Siebe Sietsma
    Language: Afrikaans, Dutch, Hindi, Spanish with English subtitles
    Duration: 45 min
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  5. The Poison in our Homes

    The Poison in our Homes
    Friday 18 January 2013
    Romania 2011
    Directors: Andrei Ciurcanu
    Producers: Carmen Avram
    Language: Romanian with English subtitles
    Duration: 22 min
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  6. Law of the Jungle

    Law of the Jungle
    Friday 18 January 2013
    Denmark 2011
    Directors: Hans LaCour, Michael Christoffersen
    Producers: Henrik Underbjerg, Stefan Frost. Co producer Finn Mathiasen
    Language: Spanish with English subtitles
    Duration: 85 min
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  7. Tracked

    Tracked
    Saturday 19 January 2013
    France 2012
    Directors: Paul Moreira
    Producers: Luc Hermann
    Language: Dubbed in English
    Duration: 60 min
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  8. Cotton for my Shroud

    Cotton for my Shroud
    Saturday 19 January 2013
    India 2011
    Directors: Kavita Bahl, Nandan Saxena
    Producers: Kavita Bahl
    Language: Hindi, Marathi and English. English subtitles
    Duration: 75mins
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Blood in the Mobile

Friday 27 January 6.30pm
City University London
Denmark 2011
Directors: Frank Piasecki Poulsen
Producers: Ole Tornbjerg
Language: English

We love our cell phones and the selection between different models has never been bigger. But the production of phones has a dark, bloody side.

The main part of minerals used to produce cell phones are coming from the mines in the Eastern DR Congo. The Western World is buying these so-called conflict minerals and thereby finances a civil war that, according to human rights organisations, has been the bloodiest conflict since World War II: During the last 15 years the conflict has cost the lives of more than five million people and 300.000 women have been raped. The war will continue as long as armed groups can finance their warfare by selling minerals.

If you ask the phone companies where their suppliers get minerals from, none of them can guarantee that they aren't buying conflict minerals from the DR Congo.

The documentary Blood in the Mobile shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the DR Congo. Director Frank Poulsen travels to DR Congo to see the illegal mine industry with his own eyes. He gets access to DR Congo's largest tin-mine, which is being controlled by different armed groups, and where children work for days in narrow mine tunnels to dig out the minerals that end up in our phones.

After visiting the mine Frank Poulsen tries to speak to Nokia, the world's largest phone company. Frank Poulsen wants them to guarantee that they are not buying conflict minerals and thereby financing the war in the DR Congo. Nokia cannot give him that guarantee.

Blood in Mobile is a film about our responsibility for the conflict in the DR Congo and about corporate social responsibility.

Q&A

After the screening Ole Tornbjerg the film's Producer, and Annie Dunnebacke, Senior Campaigner, Conflict Resources at Global Witness will take questions about the issues raised in the film.

Bookings

£5 or £4 - concs, except Cotton for my Shroud: £8 (£7 concs) and includes the reception. Cash only on the door.

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