FOOD & FOOTAGE: Ernte Teilen – Solidarischen Landwirtschaft (SoLaWi)

In the organizer's words:

Agriculture is currently facing a massive crisis. We need new concepts and ideas to produce and consume our food more seasonally, regionally, organically and fairly.

Solidarity-based agriculture (SoLaWi) puts this into practice and shows that there are solutions and that ways beyond environmental destruction and profit-oriented greed are possible. Supporting the SoLaWi movement and similar forms of community organization is becoming more important than ever in our current context of late capitalism.

Ernte Teilen tells the story of farmers who are taking a stand against the growth compulsion of our system and breaking out of the structures of conventional agriculture. Filmmaker and activist Philipp Petruch takes the film on a journey to three SoLaWi initiatives in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. They are united by a clear goal: with the help of communities, they are creating a local supply cycle based on the values of ecology and the common good. With courage, a sense of community and a new relationship between consumer and producer, we can change agriculture. And a little bit of the world.

Sharing the harvest
by Philipp Petruch
82'
Germany, 2023
German with English subtitles

This event takes place in cooperation with SoLaWi. People working in agriculture are under enormous pressure in the current system. Their livelihood depends on subsidies and (global) market prices. They have no influence over these factors and are forced to exceed their personal limits as well as the limits of nature, soil, water and animals - or give up farming altogether. Organic farming is not exempt from this mechanism either.

SoLaWi creates a model of community-supported agriculture in Germany in which food is no longer distributed via the anonymous market, but flows into its own transparent economic cycle, which is co-organized and fully financed by consumers.

The film screening is free of charge; the purchase of a dinner is not a prerequisite for participation in the film evening.
The price for the menu is 15 euros per person (drinks not included).

Admission: 19:00
Dinner: 19:30
Film starts: 20:30

This event has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101178706.