synopsis
Following the deaths of his father and many others from his village, filmmaker Daniel Lambo sets off on a passionate quest to find the truth about the deadly asbestos industry. His search takes him to the largest asbestos waste dump in India and unveils a cold-blooded industry still endangering the lives of workers and consumers around the world.
A gripping story on the fight of individuals against a booming asbestos industry.
press
We mogen een westers bedrijf niet laten wegkomen met een massamoord in ontwikkelingslanden (Humo)
Hoe het asbestverhaal gewoon verder gaat (Knack)
De hel van mijn jeugd ligt nu in India (De Standaard)
Recensie Ademloos (Filmagie)
Fuck de Asbestindustrie (Humo)
‘Ademloos' over de dappere strijd tegen de gewetenloze asbestindustrie (De Wereld Morgen)
Asbest van Belgisch Eternit maakt nu slachtoffers in India (Follow The Money)
’Booster’ : een hippe Vlaamse guerillafilm met een Amerikaans promotiebudget (Cinevox)
‘Ademloos’ legt wanpraktijken Eternit bloot (Kanaal Z)
Ademloos van Daniel Lambo wint publieksprijs op Mooov (Knack Focus)
De stille doder die wordt doodgezwegen (De Standaard)
Responsabiliser les entreprises (Le Soir)
info
release date: 2019
country: Belgium
language: Dutch
runtime: 70 minutes
color: color
release format: DCP
distributor: Lambo Films, Dancing Dog Productions & Storyhouse Films
support: Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Creative Europe Media, Canvas, RTBF, EO/IKONdocs, Belgian Tax Shelter, Fonds Pascal Decroos and Fonds pour le journalisme
Awards
Winner Audience Award – MOOOV Film Festival 2018
Winner Best Documentary – ENSOR Awards 2019
Fethi Kayaalp Grand Award - BIFED 2019
Festivals
Mooov, 2018, Belgium. Audience Award
Manifesta, 2018, Belgium
Lund Human Rights Festival 2018, Sweden
Zurich Human Rights Festival 2018, Switzerland
Geneva Human Rights Festival 2018, Switzerland
Movies That Matter 2019, The Netherlands
Ekotop film Festival 2019, Slovakia, Award, Best Feature
Matsalu Nature Film Festival 2019 Estonia
Ensors 2019, Award: Best Documentary.
LAO International Film Festival, 2019, Italy, Honorable Mention.
BIFED, 2019, Turkey, Award
Verzio, International Human Rights Film Festival, 2019 Hungary
crew
director: Daniel Lambo
writer (script): Daniel Lambo & Maarten Schmidt
producer: Daniel Lambo, Maarten Schmidt, Quentin Noirfalise
director of photography: Koen Van Sande
film editor: Geert Veuskens
music: Peter Baert
cast
Nimala Gurung
Tublu Mukherjee
Eric Jonckheere