• Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2016

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Over two and a half years after Typhoon Haiyan, 90% of those who were affected in the Philippine city of Tacloban have not been re-housed yet.

On November 8, 2013, the region suffered widespread devastation. More than 6,000 people were killed, over one million houses were destroyed or damaged, and 4 million people were displaced.
Four months after the catastrophe, the ARTE Reports crew helped reconstruction efforts using the resources that were to hand. Camps of tents sprung up all over the city.
The Philippines is one of the world’s countries that is the most prone to natural disaster.
 
What is the situation today? What has become of Thelma, a mother of seven, and 7-months pregnant, living in a makeshift tent whilst waiting to be re-housed? Have the fishermen returned to live on the coast, in the “red zones”, where it is now forbidden to build houses at less than 40 metres from the sea? What is the village of Cutay like today, where 90% of its houses were destroyed by the wind.
 
Two and a half years after the typhoon, ARTE Reports meets the same victims it met before.