The Burning Field

Film Info

Film Year: 2019

Film Duration: 71 min

Country: United States

Language: English

Director

Justin Weinrich

Film Category

Best Feature Documentary

Synopsis

In this immersive portrait of life in an environmental wasteland, four young Ghanaians struggle to navigate work and relationships over a single day in Agbogbloshie, the largest e-waste dump on earth. Told entirely from their unique perspectives and in their own words, verité sequences capture telling moments from lives spent dismantling and burning electronic appliances from around the world, and the steep toll that it takes both on them and on the environment.