Without lithium, no electricity storage facility, no data center, and no electric car would work. You don’t care? How about if we told you that without lithium, smartphones wouldn’t work either?
Materia Prima, the new documentary from Jens Schanze, goes to the frontiers, focusing on this raw metal and a new gold rush surrounding it. The film, exploring hidden mechanisms and dynamics of global interests and local realities, world premieres on Thursday, March 12 in the F:act Award section of CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, whose 23rd edition kicks off Wednesday and runs through March 22.
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“The Europeans want the raw material to save their automotive industry. The Bolivians want it to combat poverty,” reads a synopsis for the doc. “In the midst of it all are the Bolivian government, corporations, but also civil society groups, mainly organized by women. By situating today’s
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