Film premiere "The Peace Chefs on the Rio Napo".

The filmmakers Esther Petsche and Samuel Schlaefli will present their documentary "The Peace Chefs on the Rio Napo" on October 13 at the Kulturhaus KOSMOS in Zurich. This in the context of a matinee together with the Swiss NGO "Cuisine sans frontières". After the screening, David Höner, founder of the Zurich-based NGO "Cuisine sans frontières", will read from his new book "Kochen ist Politik" (Westend Verlag, 2019) and discuss with guests about meaningful development cooperation, sustainable tourism and gastronomy as bridge builder and peacemaker.

The Amazon rainforest in Ecuador is under attack: The oil industry, cattle farmers and palm oil producers are encroaching ever deeper into the rainforest. Indigenous groups are increasingly losing habitat and their cultural wealth is threatened with extinction. His cooking ferry along the Rio Napo is a glimmer of hope for a transformation from an economy based on plunder, to a sustainable use of the Amazon rainforest. A transformation also from the systematic oppression of indigenous people to their self-empowerment.

Sunday, October 13
at KOSMOS, Lagerstrasse 104, 8004 Zurich

11.00
Swiss premiere of the film "The Peace Chefs on the Rio Napo"
Cinema ticket: CHF 15.- (orders here)

12.30
Reading from David Höner's book "Cooking is politics" and panel discussion "Development Cooperation - Meaningful or Pointless?"
(free admission)

On the panel:
> Christine Plüss, Managing Director Working Group Tourism & Development
> Jennifer Anthamatten, Senior Researcher Avenir Suisse
> Peter Niggli, former Managing Director of Alliance Sud, now on the Board of Trustees of Fastenopfer and on the Central Board and Advisory Board of Helvetas.
> David Höner, author and founder of Cuisine sans frontières

Moderation: Samuel Schlaefli, freelance journalist and filmmaker

For more information on the matinee on October 13 from 11 a.m. at KOSMOS, Zurich, please visit here

More information about the film:

www.the-amazon-changers.ch