MITUMBA, THE SECOND HAND-ROAD

MITUMBA, THE SECOND HAND-ROAD

Country/ies
Italy
Production
Raffaele Brunetti
Editor
Length
52
Original Language
Original language
Status
Completed
Completed in
2005
Eurodoc Participant
Eurodoc Producer
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Year participation
2003
Distribution

The story of a T-shirt... about how it travelled from the north to the south of the world. It's the inside-out story of a piece of clothing's first and second life and everything that happens in between. The tale is told by the people involved in the second-hand clothes trade and by the thoughts of a traveller. He starts out from Hamburg, shadowing a T-shirt that belonged to Felix, a 10 year-old football fan. Four months later he arrives in Tanzania, at the village of Ilambilole. Along the way he encounters an incredible number of people who had something to do with the T-shirt and whose livelihoods revolve around the buying and selling of second-hand clothes and shoes: wholesalers, retailers, transporters, sorters…until it reached 9 year-old Lucky, another football fan with a passion for T-shirts that have a number on the back.

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