Everything that you’ve been taught is a lie. Everything that you’ve been told by parents and teachers is wrong. It is all biased information that has been influenced by societal power structures. Different truths exist - the first step to understanding other truths is realizing that your own view of the world is not the only one.

The Lottery of Birth pulls together interviews with great academics, journalists and activists such as Vandana Shiva, George Monbiot and the late Howard Zinn. Together they connect the dots between education, media and the economic system.

They all dazzle with their ability to see things differently and their invectives against apathy. Little by little, a new image of the 21st century’s societal reality emerges from the outlines. Whether you’re into ethics, economics or simply into being a better person than you were born to be, you can’t afford to miss this film.

“If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn’t happen by laws of nature. And it doesn’t happen by social laws. . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success...” - Noam Chomsky