Bugs
Monday, 16 October 201;  6:30 p.m.
Topkino, Rahlgasse 1, 1060 Vienna
Admission free - no bookings taken - admission is first come, first served - please arrive early

On the occasion of World Food Day, the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna, in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations (Vienna), this human world (THW) Film Festival and Topkino, invites you to the Ciné-ONU Vienna screening of the movie “Bugs”.

A team from Copenhagen-based Nordic Food Lab made up of chefs and researchers have been travelling the world to learn what some of the two billion people who already eat insects have to say. In BUGS, film director Andreas Johnsen follows them as they forage, farm, cook and taste insects with communities in Europe, Australia, Mexico, Kenya, Japan and beyond. During their journey they encounter everything from revered termite queens and desert-delicacy honey ants to venomous giant hornets. Throughout the team's experiences and conversations in the field, at the lab, at farm visits and international conferences, some hard questions start to emerge.

If industrially produced insects become the norm, will they be as delicious and as beneficial as the ones in diverse, resilient ecosystems and cuisines around the world? And who will actually benefit as insects are scaled up? Are insects a mirror that reflects our broken food systems, or the silver bullet that will fix them?
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09.10.2017