How Ikea Plunders the Planet
How Ikea Plunders the Planet

Movie·2024·1h 35m

How Ikea Plunders the Planet

Country

Belgium

Language

French

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The Story

Original title: Ikea, le seigneur des forêts

Investigative journalists working for Disclose spent over a year investigating the production chain of the furniture giant which generated a 44.6 billion euros revenue in 2022 and attracts over 5 billion visitors to its stores and website every year. From the boreal forests of Sweden to Brazilian plantations and New Zealand coastlines, they uncovered how IKEA intensively exploits wood around the world, fuels the illegal trafficking of this resource and threatens the last precious European forests. Long overlooked, intensive logging is now sparking outrage and anger among citizens in Poland and the Baltic countries, who are increasingly concerned about the fate of their countries' public forest domains and biodiversity loss. In Romania, where IKEA owns 50,000 hectares of forests, activists are risking their lives mobilizing against the timber mafia. This film tells the expansion of a discreet forest predator, grappling with the limits of the planet's resources.

Written By

Robert Schmidt, Alexander Abdelilah

Producer

Geoffrey Livolsi, Mathias Destal

Themes

capitalismikeaecologiadeforestación

Production House

Disclose Film
ARTE
CNC

Audience Score

73%

13 votes

Skip8%
Timepass20%
Go for it39%
Perfection33%

Where to watch

Region: AE

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Cast

Gabriel Paun

Self

Jean Vocat

Narrator (voice)

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Crew

Xavier Deleu

Writer, Director

Robert Schmidt

Writer

Alexander Abdelilah

Writer

Marianne Kerfriden

Writer, Director

Geoffrey Livolsi

Producer

Mathias Destal

Producer

Luc Hermann

Producer

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