The project "Sengirės kinas" combining cinema and environmental protection is coming to Adomynė!!! On September 10th at 3:00 PM, the documentary film "Return" will be shown.
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 ).
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