The green energy revolution runs on lithium — but who's paying the real price?
Heavily dependent on imports, Europe is seeking to develop its production of lithium, an element that is essential to the energy transition. Focus on the environmental challenges that accompany this quest for independence.
Direction
Gries lets miners and executives hang themselves with their own words
Editing
Brutal juxtaposition of pristine Alps and industrial scars
Director
Lucas Gries
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released amid the EU's Critical Raw Materials Act, this doc became instant ammunition in debates about whether green industrial policy just repeats old extraction patterns.
Gries spent three years embedded with a Serbian protest movement that successfully blocked Rio Tinto's $2.4 billion project — footage that mainstream outlets largely ignored.
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