Holy Shit

Can Poop Save The World?

by Rubén Abruña

Holy Shit

2023 | 86:52 min

Formal Categories

Current Affairs Sustainability Ecology Economy

Content Categories

Documentary

Synopsis

When sewers were built in the 19th century, they were regarded as a blessing. Deadly epidemics that wiped out millions of people became a thing of the past in the Western world. However, sewers also abolished the millennia-old tradition of using our excrement as fertilizer, and broke the nutrient cycle of grow-eat-excrete-compost-to grow food again. The modern flush and forget toilet discards our excrement as waste, while agriculture uses more mineral fertilizers to produce food. Mineral fertilizers which require large amounts of fossil fuels to be extracted or are non-renewable and whose global reserves are uncertain and difficult to predict.

Festivals/Awards

2023
German Nature Film Award – Deutscher Naturfilmpreis
22 NaturVision FF
B37 – Braunschweig iIFF B37
Human Rights FF Berlin
Fünf Seen Festival
Human Rights Film Festival Berlin
Homeland Earth Award – Silbersalz Festival

Cast and Crew

Director Rubén Abruña
Producer Valentin Thurn
Director of Photography Hajo Schomerus
Narrator Christoph Maria Herbst
Editor Cécile Welter
Sound Ralf Weber
Score Ulrich Kodjo Wendt

Original Languages

German

English

French

Korean

World Sales Company

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Production Company

ThurnFilm GmbH
Neven-DuMont-Str. 14, 50667 Köln

Phone: +49 221 25890190

produktion@thurnfilm.de
http://www.thurnfilm.de

Links / Reference

DISTRIBUTION Germany
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TRAILER
youtu.be/51bv6rkY42c

MUSIC CLIP
youtu.be/2mtUmOzWESw

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