Theater of Life


During Expo Milano 2015, celebrated chef Massimo Bottura — whose restaurant Osteria Francescana was named the world’s best restaurant in 2016 — invited 60 of his internationally renowned colleagues to join him in transforming food that was scheduled to go to the dumpster into delicious and nutritious meals to be served to hungry people in Italy.

But the documentary does much more than relate this important moment in culinary history: the work evokes touching encounters with the soup kitchen guests — who discovered a welcoming, warm community — and lets us glimpse a part of the heart and soul of the client base.

Director: Peter Svatek
Studio: Triplex Films and National Film Board of Canada
Producer(s): Josette Gauthier, Peter Svatek, Annette Clarke
Cast: Massimo Bottura, Ferran Adrià, René Redzepi, Alain Ducasse
Writer(s): Peter Svatek
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