The Providence Tree

A movie of MICHAEL HELLAS

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Synopsis 

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This is the story of the encounter between a man and a tree. ago 

almost thirty years, a young Belgian aid worker recognizes a tree in the bush, or rather he rediscovers it, because this tree was forgotten, ignored for generations. -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_

highlight an ancestral agroforestry practice: plant certain trees in coffee, cocoa, vegetable or cereal fields because they fertilize the soil for free, because in a few years they restore soil that has become unsuitable for 'agriculture. 

These trees, which are called fertilizers , lift farmers out of poverty; they persuade them to stay in the village rather than try to emigrate. These trees  store tons of carbon, they attract rain, they

could change Africa but not everyone likes it!

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Year of production2019

Duration52 mins

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Co-productionwith RTBF, SHELTERPROD 

With the support of Fund for journalism in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the Yves Rocher Foundation – Institut de France and the support of Tax shelter.BE and ING, and the tax shelter of the federal government of Belgium

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image ANTONIO CAPURSO

his PHILIPPE SELLIER 

assembly SABINE HUBEAU

musicCHRISTOPHE VERVOORT 

calibrationSTEPHAN HIGELIN

comment CECILE VAN GRIEKEN

mixingPIERRE BRUYNS