Join us to watch the first US screening of this eye-opening film by Swiss producer Philippe Stalder. Learn about the cocoa growing realities in Ghana in this 2025 documentary.
The film will be followed by a tasting of a chocolate bar made with Ghanaian cocoa beans AND a live Q&A session with the film's producer, Philippe Stalder, and a Ghanaian farmer featured in the film, Nana Aduna II.
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Why do most cocoa farmers in Ghana never get to taste the chocolate made from their own beans? For over a century, the value of Ghana's cocoa has been diverted to the North – where multinational chocolatiers make billions of dollars each year.
"Reclaiming Cocoa" peels back the layers of this complex industry, revealing deep cracks in its promises of sustainability and traceability: We meet the Nartey's, a family whose children toil on cocoa farms instead of going to school.
Providing possible solutions, the film portrays local entrepreneurs and start-ups that turn cocoa into alternative products. "Reclaiming Cocoa" is a call to action – to rethink how we consume, to challenge historic narratives, and to imagine a world where value is shared equitably.
Trailer linked below. For more info, visit the film website: www.reclaimingcocoa.com
This Indiana screening is sponsored by the Arts & Cultural Council
of Rush County, Indiana, and the Midwest Craft Chocolate Festival.
The Midwest Festival is an annual chocolate event scheduled for the weekend of November 22, 2025 at the Love Community Center in Rushville, Indiana.
For more info on the Arts & Cultural Council, visit: https://www.imaginenationrush.org/
For more info on the Chocolate Festival, visit: www.midwestcraftchocolatefestival.com
