Dir. Rubén Abruña
2023 | 85 mins | Germany, Switzerland
English, German with English Subtitles

Flush and forget? Or the final frontier of recycling? Looking for answers about the significant potential of human excrement, director Rubén Abruña embarks on an entertaining and enlightening adventure across the globe to investigate whether faeces should be regarded as a resource and not as waste. From sustainable city living in Geneva to Uganda’s singing Poop Pirates, we learn how our most unheeded asset could actually help us to mitigate the climate crisis, generate energy, and save lives. Far from taboo, can this new wave of thinking soon become mainstream?

Screening as part of the UKGFF

This year’s UK Green Film Festival programme take us on investigative adventures around the world in pursuit of the future. How can we reimagine life in our cities? How do powerful systems actually change? Should we be looking at our houseplants a little differently? Answers and accountability are uncovered in the grandest ideas and the smallest details, from urban revegetation to the deepest depths of our oceans… Find out more >