Sengirė

The Ancient Woods
Director
Mindaugas Survila
Country
Lithuania, Estonia, Germany
Year
2017
Genre
Documentary
Scriptwriters
Mindaugas Survila
Production
SENGIRE
http://www.sengire.lt/en/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7494128/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Storyline

The documentary poem “The Ancient Forest” focuses on the habitant of an old growth forest – birds, animals as well as elderly people living nearby. The film will guide its viewer through the dense woods, wolf holes, up to an eagles' nest, down to the underwater forest, sunk thousands of years ago and back to the man's home. In the cottage the time is “human”: days and hours seem to be on pause. Yet is it easy for a man to obey the flow of the nature, undividable into hours and minutes? Or does the growing old become his essence?

The ancient woods are the place where the boundaries of time melt and everything that exists does not wither or age but “grows into” eternity. The film takes its viewers on the endless journey – from the forest thickets to the wolves’ caves and up to black stork’s nest, and then deep into the water to the underwater forest, returning after to the human beings inhabiting the edge of woodland.

 

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Vilnius International Film Festival 2018
Copenhagen International Documentary Festival 2018
DocsBarcelona - International Documentary Film Festival 2019
Official Section - Panorama

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