2024 | Germany | Documentary

The Pickers

  • English, Bambara, Spanish, Greek, Italian, Nepali, Portuguese, Urdu English, German, Italian, French, Greek, Dutch, Spanish 80 mins
  • Director | Elke Sasse
  • Writer | Elke Sasse
  • Producer | Kristian Kähler

STATUS: In Distribution

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We want cheap fruit and veg, all year. No problem. The pickers deliver, but they are paying the price for us.

THE PICKERS is a journey to European fields where our fruit and vegetables are grown: in Southern Italy, Seydou from Mali is picking oranges. He has no contract and is paid per crate. He lives in a self-built hut in a settlement without water and electricity.  

Blueberries in Portugal, olives in Greece, strawberries in Spain – more than two million migrants work in European fields, most of them without contract or minimum wage, some without papers or with high debts to agents.

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