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Mitumba: The second hand road (2005)

Mitumba: The second hand road poster
Directed by
Raffaele Brunetti
Genre
documentary film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A documentary that follows a single T-shirt from a donation bin in the global north to a secondhand market in the global south. It examines the path that donated clothing takes and the different worlds of those who wear new clothes and those who wear used ones.

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What happens

Mitumba: The Second Hand Road è un film documentario del 2005 diretto da Raffaele Brunetti. Il film è stato prodotto dalla B&B Film in coproduzione con Filmtank Hamburg, NDR, Arte e YLE. È la storia di una maglietta e del suo viaggio dal nord al sud del mondo. Una riflessione su chi si veste di prima e chi di seconda mano e, soprattutto, di quello che c'è tra la prima e la seconda vita degli indumenti. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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