OUR DAILY BREAD
aka UNSER TÄGLICH BROT

Year: 2005
USA: First Run Icarus Films
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Countries: Germany / Austria
Languages: German / Arabic (English subtitles)
USA: 92 mins
USA Release Date: 24 November 2006 (Limited Release - New York)

US Distributor

Synopsis

OUR DAILY BREAD reveals the little-known world of high-tech agriculture. In a series of visually stunning, continuously tracking, wide-screen images that seem right out of a science-fiction movie, we see the places where food is cultivated and processed.

In sealed rooms, as sterile as computer microprocessor factories, chicks hatch while being closely monitored. A huge hose sucks salmon out of a fjord. Metal teeth chomp up fields of sunflowers which, thanks to chemicals, have withered at just the right time.

OUR DAILY BREAD documentary is a fascinating factual revelation of what happens to our food en route to the finished product before it reaches consumers and ends up on a supermarket shelf.