Once Upon a Time in a Forest | Stranger Than Fiction

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN A FOREST

FIN 2024 - 93' - OmeU - Director: Virpi Suutari

Young people roaming through the thicket, bathing under birch trees in clear lake water, dewdrops glistening in the sunlight, animals scurrying, flying and crawling through the undergrowth. What seems like a modern fairytale movie soon lands rather rudely in the reality of today. With its boreal vegetation, Finland, the most densely forested country in Europe, together with Sweden, acts as the green lung of this continent. There is a scientific consensus that the preservation of forests is one of the most effective measures to counteract climate change and halt the massive extinction of species. Despite this immensely important task, around ninety percent of Finland's forests are currently threatened by deforestation, partly for the paper industry.

22-year-old Ida suddenly finds herself at the forefront of a new environmental movement due to her love of trees and her equally great anger at their destruction. Together with many like-minded people, she takes on the giants of the Finnish forestry industry. At the same time, she realizes that in her own family there is a deep-rooted conviction that the forest is a "woodcutter" that must secure Finland's prosperity. Lina Dinkla. DOK Leipzig

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