Gardiens de la forêt (2023)

From the ballet of trucks loaded with logs to the flames of derricks, there are many faces of deforestation which spares no continent. In fifty years, increasingly insistent cries of alarm about climate change and the collapse of biodiversity have proven powerless to stop this deadly process. However, consciences are facing the emergency, mobilizing and innovating. In local cultures in close connection with nature, the universal is at stake, as demonstrated by the indigenous leaders of this sumptuous documentary series - served by the music of Piers Faccini -, in the fight for the survival of the last five great primary forests on the globe : Twyla the Native American (Canada), Tumursukh the Mongolian, Mambongo the Gabonese, Mundiya the Papuan and Benki the Brazilian. Far from folklorizing their struggles, Guardians of the Forest invites us to make room for their vision of the world while there is still time. By listening to these strong personalities, inseparable from the ecosystems they defend, a reconnection takes place, in a radical break with the reification and commodification of nature that has become our everyday life.