4PM: WHY POVERTY FILM FESTIVAL - Ruschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents, but it receives more tax revenue than it can use. This is largely thanks to one resident, Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, whose copper mines in Zambia are not generating a large bounty tax revenue for the Zambians. Zambia has the third largest copper reserves in the world, but 60 per cent of the population lives on less than $1 a day and 80 per cent are unemployed. Christoffer Guldbrandsen’s documentary STEALING AFRICA (2012, 58 min) describes the tax system employed by multinational companies in Africa.

7PM: WHY POVERTY – INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS

8PM: WHY POVERTY FILM FESTIVAL - In ancient time in China, education was the only way out of poverty; in recent time it has been the best way. China’s economic boom and talk of the merits of hard work have created an expectation that study is to escape poverty. These days however, China’s higher education system only leads to jobs for a few, educating a new generation to unemployment and despair. Chinese director Weijun Chen’s docu EDUCATION, EDUCATION (2012, 58 mins) uses three stories of young Chinese people to tell a bigger story about the country's failing education system.