For more than a year, investigative journalists Xavier Deleu (Epidemics, man’s footprint) and Marianne Kerfriden traced Ikea’s production chain to the four corners of the globe. From the last boreal forests in Sweden to plantations in Brazil, the New Zealand countryside and the wide open spaces of Poland and Romania, the documentary reveals the links between the multinational furniture company and the intensive and uncontrolled exploitation of wood. It reveals how the brand with the yellow and blue logo, often through unscrupulous suppliers or subcontractors, is contributing to the destruction of biodiversity across the planet and fuelling the timber trade. Like in Romania, where Ikea owns 50,000 hectares of forest, and where activists are risking their lives to take action against an endemic timber mafia. Behind the success of one of the world’s most popular companies, this groundbreaking investigation sheds light on the incredible expansion of a discreet predator that has become a champion of greenwashing.
ProductionDisclose Films et Premières LIgnesRéalisation Marianne Kerfriden et Xavier DeleuDiffuseurArte FranceAnnée2023DescriptionCréation graphique de l'habillage, cartes, animations de pages de catalogue
