WELCOME TO SODOM
COMPLETED
Filmmakers: Florian Weigensamer, Christian Krönes
Country: Austria
Runtime: 90′
Year: 2018
Format: HD
Agbogloshi, Accra is the largest electronic waste dump in the world. About 6000 women, men and children live and work here. They call it SODOM. Every year about 250.000 tons of sorted out computers, smartphones, air conditions tanks and other devices from a far away electrified and digitalized world end up here. Illegally.
Cleverly interwoven, the destinies of the various protagonists unravel the complex story of this apocalyptic society. Their very personal inner voices allow a deep insight into life and work at this place – and of Sodom itself. And you can be sure – it will most probably be the final destination of the smartphone, the computer you buy today.
Producer: Christian Krönes, Roland Schrotthofer – Blackbox Film & Medienproduktion GmbH
Cinematographer: Christian Kermer
Editor: Christian Kermer
Original Score, Sound Design: Jürgen Kloihofer, Felix Sturmberger – heimwerk.audio
Original Script: Roland Schrotthofer, Florian Weigensamer
NEWS & REVIEWS
‘Welcome To Sodom’: Zurich Review (SCREEN DAILY)
Review: Welcome to Sodom (Cineuropa)
Happy Accidents at CPH:DOX 2018: My Three (Four-Star) DOX:AWARD Stars (Filmmaker Magazine)
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