We want cheap fruit and veg, all year. No problem. The pickers deliver, but they are paying the price for us.

This is the documentary film that inspired our THE PICKERS Campaign in 2025. You can still book it for screenings directly through the production company.

THE PICKERS is a journey to European fields where our fruit and vegetables are grown: in Southern Italy, Seydou from Mali is picking oranges. He has no contract and is paid per crate. He lives in a self-built hut in a settlement without water and electricity.  

Blueberries in Portugal, olives in Greece, strawberries in Spain – more than two million migrants work in European fields, most of them without contract or minimum wage, some without papers or with high debts to agents.

Duration: 80 minutes

Produced by: Berlin Producers Media GmbH

Director: Elke Sasse

Executive Producer: Kristian Kähler

Cinematographer: Marcus Zahn

Editor: Janine Dauterich

Post Production: Walid Habash
Color Grading: Daniél Spitzenberg
Additional Research: Jonas Seufert
Research and Production Nepal: Bhrikuti Rai 
Research Spain: Soumia Benelfatmi Elgarrab
Research Portugal: Joao Tiago, Lopyang Yasuhiro
Research Greece: Daphne Tolls, Ali Shair

A production by Berlin Producers, in coproduction with SP-I, Neda Film, WDR, in collaboration with ARTE, funded by Creative Europe, Journalismfund Europe.

Original film website: thepickers.de