How Ikea Plunders the Planet (2024): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2024, How Ikea Plunders the Planet is a documentary, drama and crime film directed by Xavier Deleu, running about 95 minutes.

What it’s about. Investigative journalists working for Disclose spent over a year investigating the production chain of the furniture giant which generated a 44.6 billion euros revenue in 2022 and attracts over 5 billion visitors to its stores and website every year. From the boreal forests of Sweden to Brazilian plantations and New Zealand coastlines, they uncovered how IKEA intensively exploits wood around the world, fuels the illegal trafficking of this resource and threatens the last precious European forests. Long overlooked, intensive logging is now sparking outrage and anger among citizens in Poland and the Baltic countries, who are increasingly concerned about the fate of their countries' public forest domains and biodiversity loss. In Romania, where IKEA owns 50,000 hectares of forests, activists are risking their lives mobilizing against the timber mafia. This film tells the expansion of a discreet forest predator, grappling with the limits of the planet's resources.

Who’s in it. How Ikea Plunders the Planet stars Gabriel Paun as Self and Jean Vocat as Narrator (voice).

How it landed. With an audience score of 7.3/10, How Ikea Plunders the Planet has been warmly received by audiences.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch How Ikea Plunders the Planet page.

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