On a remote cocoa plantation in West Africa, children work in silence under constant fear. Among them are siblings Alita and Bunker, bound by love but forbidden to speak. Hunger, exhaustion, and violence shape their days, while the sound of cracking cocoa pods becomes a permanent echo of punishment.
Years later, Bunker has risen within the same system that once enslaved him. As he navigates a world built on exploitation and denial, memories of Alita resurface, memories of a bond broken by brutality and a childhood stolen without witnesses.
Through fragmented recollections and shifting perspectives, Remote Farms traces the cost of survival inside an invisible economy, where survival quietly reshapes who we become.
Set inside an economy designed to remain unseen, the film Remote Farms explores how trauma mutates across generations, and how silence can be both a weapon and a legacy.
Director and Producer:
Homayoon Mobaraki
Producer:
Michael Asonganyi
Written and edited:
Homayoon Mobaraki
DOP:
Peter SN