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  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 13 m
  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 13 m

Summary With global food shortages on the horizon, forward-thinking chefs, environmentalists and food scientists are turning toward an unexpected source of protein: insects. Bugs is an artful and thoughtful new documentary that provides a perfect entry point to insect cuisine. For three years, a cast of charming and brave food adventurers from t...

Directed By: Andreas Johnsen

  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 13 m
  • 2017
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 13 m

Bugs

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Summary With global food shortages on the horizon, forward-thinking chefs, environmentalists and food scientists are turning toward an unexpected source of protein: insects. Bugs is an artful and thoughtful new documentary that provides a perfect entry point to insect cuisine. For three years, a cast of charming and brave food adventurers from t...

Directed By: Andreas Johnsen

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Sep 27, 2017
Bugs, an entertaining and eye-opening documentary from Andreas Johnsen, will send moviegoers out with a feeling of culinary adventurousness, eager to sample well-prepared escamoles (ant larvae) or termite queen with mango.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 28, 2017
Though it might initially look like a wacky foodie adventure show, Bugs has a conscience.
By Brad Wheeler FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 25, 2017
It begins as a gleeful deadpan comedy and ends up as an exasperated cri de cœur against our current system of industrialized food production and distribution.
By Keith Watson FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 28, 2017
It’s gently comic, a touch naïve, and somewhat moving: These idealists are ready to fight to keep creepy-crawlies farm to table.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 12, 2017
Input from a broader range of chefs and food experts, as well as sociologists and scientists, could have better fleshed out this brief study.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Rosforth, Danish Documentary Production, Clin d'Oeil, Clin d'oeil Films, Danmarks Radio (DR), Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Submarine, Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO)
Release Date Sep 27, 2017
Duration 1 h 13 m
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Tagline Will eating insects save our Earth?
Website http://www.facebook.com/bugsfeed
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Awards

Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Bodil Awards
• 1 Nomination

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