Four Wings and a Prayer
Directed by
It has a wingspan of 10 cm and a body weight of 0.5 g but can fly over 5000 km on its migratory flight every autumn from Canada, where it is born, towards South: it's the monarch butterfly. Narrated by Kristin Scott Thomas, the film follows this amazing insect in a real odissey in which it will be able to fly for 10-km steps per day andperfectly orient itself during its journey to Michoacan, Mexico, where the local population practices a religious cult in its honor.
Genre
Documentary
Country
Canada, France
Year
2007
Duration
80'
Production Companies
Primitive Entertainment, Film à Trois, National Film Board of Canada
Languages
English
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Endangered by human actions, the diversity of species is crucial to the harmony of the interconnected ecosystems we inhabit: the implications of its loss and why this issue affects more than just those that go extinct.








