The Ancient Forest

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A family is quietly at home when suddenly chainsaws and bulldozers come crashing through the walls, destroying everything. The contrast between the family's shock and the contemplative images of lush ancient forests, whose surface areas have been depleted to 20% of their original expansion, serves as a denouncement of the worldwide devastation responsible for destroying an area of forest the size of a soccer field every two seconds. With the ravaging of the world's forests, many species find themselves with no place to live, brutalized just as harshly as the quiet family in the beginning of the film. The Ancient Forest was commissioned by Greenpeace.

Genre
Fiction
Country
United Kingdom
Year
2002
Duration
2'
Amanda Temple
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.
Food on Film project
Food on Film
Partners
Slow Food
Associazione Cinemambiente
Cezam
Innsbruck nature film festival
mobilEvent
In collaboration with
Interfilm
UNISG - University of Gastronomic Sciences

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