Directed by Johan Grimonprez and based on Andrew Feinstein's globally acclaimed book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, this explosive film reveals the murky world of the international arms trade.
Stitching together expert interviews and archive footage, Shadow World reveals that corruption is not a dirty little side effect of the arms trade, but in fact its defining factor. Politicians, who are supposed to represent our hopes and dreams, sell us fear and nightmares in the interest of the very corporations that profit from war.
By shedding light on how our realities are being constructed, the film argues, with alarming plausibility, that we have privatized the function of war. As a result, bribes and corruption determine the economic and foreign policies of some of the biggest countries in the world, making sure that there is always a war to be fought.
Shadow World
2016, USA/Belgium/Denmark
94 min, colour & b/w, english
directed by Johan Grimonprez
based on the book The Shadow World
by Andrew Feinstein
stories written and read by Eduardo Galeano
featuring
Harris Yullin
Andrew Feinstein
David Leigh
Helen Garlick
Riccardo Privitera
Pierre Sprey
Vijay Prashad
Jermey Scahill
Marta Benavides
Lawrence Wilkerson
Chris Hedges
Frankley C. Spinney
Cynthia McKinney
Michael Hardt
James der Derian
Robert Fisk
Clare Short
David Lawley-Wakelin
Muntazer Al Zaidi
Trita Parsi
Wesley Clark
Shir Hever
director of photography Nicole MacKinley Hahn
edited by Per K. Kirkegaard Pedro Collantes de Teran Bayonas Dieter Diependaele
original music Karsten Fundal
producers Joslyn Barnes Anadil Hossain
co-producers Signe Byrge Sørensen Emmy Oost
executive producers Bertha Foundation Abigail Disney Danny Glover Driss Benyaklef
produced by Dillywood Louverture Films
in co-production with Onomatopee Films Final Cut For Real
in association with Bertha Foundation Fork Films Vital Projects Fund ITVS RTBF Television Belge Britdoc Circle Danish Film Institute zap-o-matik
with the support of Sundance Documentary Film Program Cinereach Vital Projects Fund Gucci Tribeca Documentary Grant, Tribeca Film Institute
Flanders State of the Art