Director: Frank Piasecki Poulsen
Origin: Denmark
Duration: 85m

We can’t live without our mobile phones, but their production has a dark and bloody side. Minerals used to make our mobiles come from mines in the Eastern DR Congo, funding a brutal civil war responsible for around 5 million deaths, atrocious child labour and some 300,000 rapes in the last 15 years. It’s a war that will continue as long as armed groups can trade the minerals. Director Frank Poulsen travels to Congo and gets access to its largest illegal tin-mine, where enslaved children dig for days in narrow tunnels. He then tries to confront Nokia, the world’s largest phone company. Are they implicated in trading 'conflict minerals'?

DOING THE BUSINESS
This screening is part of a series of films about social and ethical issues in business, programmed in conjunction with the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School. There will be an introduction before each screening and a post-film discussion.

Other films in the series are:

TUE 28 FEB: UP THE YANGTZE
TUE 6 MAR: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD
TUE 13 MAR: MARGIN CALL

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