Welcome to the Forest - Mind the Gap
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Welcome to the Forest - Mind the Gap

Meie metsad - Lagendikud

2024
Entry 24-584 | Germany | 2024 | 50’ | Language: English | Subtitles: Estonian
Original title: Unsere Wälder - Mut zur Lücke

Jan Haft presents the natural processes in a forest in which man no longer bends a branch of a tree. If a former timber plantation is left to nature, trees sometimes die in times of climate change. A strange circumstance then always becomes apparent: what was once a relatively monotonous forest first has to be "destroyed" by storms and beetles for biodiversity to explode. A circumstance that has to do with the light that is now available. At the end, the film describes what happens when a new, resilient forest grows. And what consequences this has for nature.

Director Jan Haft  | Cinematography  Kay Ziesenhenne, Jonas Blaha, Jan Haft, Jonathan Wirth, Alexandra & Steffen Sailer | Editing  Jan Haft | Composer  Dominik Eulberg, Hannes Kretzer | Producer  Melanie Haft | Production Company  nautilusfilm GmbH for doclights GmbH | Original Title  Unsere Wälder - Mut zur Lücke
Unsere Wälder - Mut zur Lücke
Unsere Wälder - Mut zur Lücke
Unsere Wälder - Mut zur Lücke

2024
Best Cinematography
In nature filmmaking, the camera operator plays an essential role: to be the eye of the audience. From the very beginning of the film, we can sense that the camera captures something unique from the soul of the deep forest. For the director and cinematographer of the film, the forest is a playground in which he has been growing up, learning and changing. The film itself is a well-crafted story about the gap in the forests we rarely consider. The film showcases the remarkable transformation of a planted forest into a rich ecosystem through natural and semi-natural disturbances. Life arises from death, and the local destruction of a man-made landscape is therefore not a disaster, but a prerequisite for the rebirth of natural biodiverse forest habitats. Beautiful cinematography, featuring highly professional time-lapses—which are a trademark of Jan Haft’s films—tell a visually stunning yet complex story.
Director Jan Haft
Cinematography Kay Ziesenhenne, Jonas Blaha, Jan Haft, Jonathan Wirth, Alexandra & Steffen Sailer
Editing Jan Haft
Composer Dominik Eulberg, Hannes Kretzer
Producer Melanie Haft
Production Company nautilusfilm GmbH for doclights GmbH
Original Title Unsere Wälder - Mut zur Lücke
Entry Number 24-584
Country of Production
Germany
Year of Production 2024
Running Time 50’
Language: English
Subtitles: Estonian

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Lääne Goldberg Team
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Sakste maja
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