A Decent Factory
Is it possible to make profit and be ethical? Can you make money and be good? Ethical questions are coming more critical for Western companies when they are moving their production to the countries of cheap labour. Companies are getting sensitive about their reputation as their share holders are getting more aware of problems with globalisation.
Type (Documentaire / Documentaire fiction / Série documentaire)DocumentaryGenre en anglaisSociety & Economy Directed by Thomas BalmèsSupported by AVEK, CNC, MEDIADistributed by TV2 World SalesFestival(s)Official Selection, IDFA (Amsterdam, 2004)Year2004Duration80min
Nokia – the biggest mobile manufacturer of the world – was born in Finland, one of the least corrupted country in the world. Because of its incredible success, the company has expanded its activities to countries where the use of child labour, violations against human rights and corruption are common phenomena. The film follows what happens when a puritan Nordic person with no historical experience of colonialism is facing the realities of globalisation through her own work.
press coverage
Selected by around forty festivals around the world, this excellent documentary is the result of over three years of work.
le Figaro
The documentarian does not demonstrate; he shows. He is not an activist, just relevant. And while his film neither vilifies nor glorifies Nokia, it speaks volumes about the complexity of globalization and the infamous relocations. (...) Thomas Balmès, with his nonchalant demeanor, creates an uncompromising document about a fiercely modern world.
Télérama
An uncompromising document on the modern enterprise.
L'Humanité
It is into the backstage of Nokia that the documentarian Thomas Balmès, an iconoclastic ethnologist, takes us. (...) It is a must-see.
Libération
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