We use cell phones everyday and the selection between models has never been bigger. But their production has a dark, bloody side. The minerals used in them are coming from illegal mines in Eastern Congo, where a civil war takes place. By buying these so-called "conflict minerals" the Western World finances the war.
Director Frank Poulsen travels to 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 mine tunnels to dig out the minerals that end up in our phones.
Frank Piasecki POULSEN, a graduate from the Danish Film School, directed the controversial documentary Guerrilla Girl (2005). Together with its founder Peter Lincke, Poulsen was a co-director for the drama documentary Seducer's Fall (2007), a film which triggered a national debate on the docu-drama genre. In 2009, he co-founded the new media-based company, Space Sheep.
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