Film: Holy Shit

In the organizer's words:

Holy Shit DEU 2023. dir: Rubén Abruña. Documentary. 89 min. multiscreen U. FSK: 0

What happens to the food we digest after it leaves our bodies? Is it waste that is thrown away or a resource that can be reused? Director Rubén Abruña embarks on an investigative and entertaining search through 16 cities on four continents. He follows the trail of faeces from the long sewers of Paris to a huge sewage treatment plant in Chicago. He meets the Poop Pirates from Uganda, who use their work and songs to teach people how to turn faeces into safe fertilizer. In rural Sweden, an engineer shows him a dry toilet that produces fertilizer from urine. In Hamburg and Geneva, he discovers residential complexes with decentralized sewage treatment plants that generate electricity and fertilizer from human excrement. In the end, Abruña finds answers to how human feces can serve food security, environmental protection, hygiene and the fight against the climate crisis worldwide.

An event as part of Fair Week 2025.

Organizer: Cinema Quadrat in cooperation with Eine-Welt-Forum Mannheim e.V.