The Chocolate War

Name: The Chocolate War
Director: Miki Mistrati
Released: 2022

Miki Mistrati 2022

A U.S. attorney has dedicated his life to abolish slavery and human trafficking and has been working for more than a decade to take the chocolate giants Nestlé and Cargill to the Supreme Court for violating the constitution by systematically producing their well-known brands by exploiting children in Ivory Coast’s cocoa production. He and his colleague are facing a difficult task, fighting the food giants and their army of lawyers.
He travels back to Mali and the Ivory Coast in West Africa to gather new evidence for the trial, witnessing just how far the chocolate industry will go to cover up the truth about the estimated 1.5 million children working illegally in the cocoa production.

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Running Time:

84 min.

Spoken Languages:

English, French

Subtitles:

English

Directors:

Miki Mistrati

Producers:

Helle Faber

Cinematographers:

Henrik Bohn Ipsen, DFF

Editors:

Andreas Birch Eriksen

Production Companies:

Made in Copenhagen for DR in association with UpNorth Film, ROCO Films, SVT, YLE, NRK, CH 8

Activism

African Cinema and Cul..

Investigative Journalism

Press

Screen Daily

Miki Mistrati’s third documentary on the ethical failures of the chocolate industry focuses on child trafficking to the Ivory Coast... leave enlightened about the real cost of chocolate

Wendy Ide
Film Fest Report

An eye-opening thriller doc chronicling one man’s fight against a billion-dollar industry, convicted of child trafficking and slavery

Abdul Latif
cineuropa

Suspenseful investigative documentary, with dramatic music, fast cutting and plenty of contextual narrative titles which make the story crystal clear.

Vladan Petković
Business Doc Europe

Hopefully, this film will start that movement where people say ‘enough is enough.’

Geoffrey Macnab
Variety

...you will think twice before buying your next chocolate bar.

Lise Pedersen

Festival Participation

Warsaw International Film Festival - 2022
Nominee Best Documentary Feature
CPH:DOX - 2022
Nominee F:ACT Award
Cinema for Peace Awards - 2022
Nominee Cinema for Peace, Dove for Justice Award
Human Rights Film Festival, Berlin - 2022
Cinema for Peace - 2022
Nominee Most Valuable Film of the Year
Prix Italia - 2022

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