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The project "Sengirės kinas" (The Cinema of the Elderly), which combines cinema and environmental protection, is coming to Birštonas Public Library for the autumn season. On September 10, at 6 pm, the documentary film "Return" will be shown at Birštonas Public Library, S. Dariaus and S. Girėno sts. 12.
The film screening will be accompanied by a presentation by Žymantas Morkvėnas, head of the non-governmental organization "Baltic Environmental Forum", nature conservation expert, and farmer.
In English, the word “rewilding” means the return of wildlife to areas severely damaged by human activity. This idea emphasizes the natural return of nature to where it has been since the beginning of the Earth and will flourish even when humans are long gone from the planet. How do the ideas of “rewilding” sound in the context of climate change and ecological disasters? Can this be one of the solutions to the problems? How does thinking about it train a healthy awareness of one’s place on Earth and inspire living in harmony with the environment, without preventing all naturally occurring species from thriving?
This is what successful environmental projects in Lithuania tell us. In collaboration with the Baltic Environment Forum, the September "Sengirės kino" will focus on the stories of stereotype-breaking farmers who prove that living and working in harmony with nature brings rewarding results.
More about the film THE RETURN (dir. David Allen, Great Britain, 2023, 75 min.)
Having inherited the family estate of Kneppe, where farming had been carried out for 400 years despite the naturally infertile soil, a young couple made a last-ditch attempt to continue the tradition with the help of chemical fertilizers, but in the 2000s they finally realized that they could no longer compete with industrialized farms with better conditions. To save the dying, lifeless landscape of their estate, they are trusting nature to restore it. Izabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell are tearing down stone fences and repopulating their estate with wildlife, hoping that by creating the right conditions for nature to thrive, species that have long disappeared will return to the estate.
The documentary is based on the global bestseller, Isabella Tree's autobiographical novel of the same name.
The screening is free, and viewers who wish to show their gratitude are invited to support the Sengirė Foundation ( www.sengiresfondas.lt ).
"Sengirės kinas" invites you to see the film on September 10th on more than 80 screens throughout Lithuania. You can find the project map here: https://sengireskinas.lt/lokacijos/
More about the SENGIRĖ CINEMA project
“Sengirės Kinas” is a new project combining cinema and education on the topic of ecology, inspired by the impact of Mindaugas Survila’s film “Sengirė” on the protection of Lithuania’s old-growth forests. The documentary poem, beloved by the audience, showed that cinema can become a powerful tool for awakening curiosity and respect for nature, from which real changes begin. Thanks to the film and the “Sengirės Fondo”, the word sengirė today means not only the most valuable type of forest – it has become a synonym for good cinema, nature knowledge and conservation.
Responsibly bearing this name, “Sengirės Kinas” will light up the screens of libraries in Lithuanian cities and towns at the same time every month, inviting viewers to pay attention to nature. Carefully selected films from all over the world that reveal the magnificence and fragility of nature will be shown together with presentations by naturalists who will update them in the Lithuanian context. The film program will be accompanied by live meetings, discussions, excursions and other events that draw attention to the state of Lithuania’s ecology. “Sengirės Kinas” is a platform where cinema becomes a tool for change, and viewers – a community of change.
More information: www.sengireskinas.lt
