Once Upon a Time in a Forest

Mar 28, 2024

1h 32m

★ 7.4

Overview

Once Upon a Time in a Forest is a film about brave young people who are defending one of the last coniferous forest areas in Europe. It is a morality play and a love story of a younger generation whose main object of love is the Finnish forest. This cinematic documentary explores environmental feelings and witnesses how the 22-year old protagonist Ida grows up to be the leader of the new Forest Movement.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Euphoria Film

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Cast

Self

Ida Korhonen

Self

Minka Virtanen

Self

Otto Snellman

Self

Ville Murmann

Self

Otso Piitulainen

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Traktory jedou do lesa

Dec 31, 1950

Documentary film about the use of tractors in Czechoslovak forestry. It shows a forest tractor felling trees, loading logs, hauling and grubbing.

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Kůrovec

Jan 1, 1951

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8.0

The Wild Forest

Oct 7, 2021

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Jan 18, 2024

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A Thousand Pines

Sep 20, 2023

In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymundo Morales leads a crew of workers who have to make the challenging decision to leave their families in rural Mexico to plant commercial pine forests in the United States.

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Plas Gwynant

Sep 1, 1959

Follow a group of boys as they learn forestry, map reading, camping, canoeing and rock climbing.

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Groenkijkers

Dec 7, 2023

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8.0

Butterfly

Mar 30, 2001

Living in an ancient redwood tree for more than two years to prevent the tree from being clear-cut, Julia Butterfly Hill captured our hearts and minds by showing us that one person can make a difference. Through interviews with Hill, filmmaker Doug Wolens paints a portrait of an intensely spiritual and articulate woman who encountered both beauty and horror (she was assaulted by lumber company helicopters at one point) during her time above ground.

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8.0

Stamp of Character

Jan 1, 1995

Discover the "character" of one of Missouri's oldest tie and lumber operations through this archival black-and-white film that documents one of the last railroad tie drives on the Black River made by the T.J. Moss Tie Company of St. Louis in the 1920s. Thanks to release of the film by the Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation, the rare footage in "Stamp of Character" takes us through the entire process of making railroad ties, at a time when forests covered almost two-thirds of the state. The original silent motion picture was shown in movie theaters as an advertisement by the T.J. Moss Tie Company. Using digitally edited narration and realistic sound effects, this video makes the past live again.

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Zelená stráž

Jan 1, 1952

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Peaks to Prairie: A Holistic Regenerative Approach

Feb 5, 2025

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"Wer hat dich, du schöner Wald…" oder Wie ein Film verhindert wurde

Jun 14, 1990

The film reports on the massive forest damage in the Ore Mountains on the Czech-German border and the desperate struggle of foresters and residents to save this landscape. Hope, doubt and an ever-increasing ecological catastrophe are pitted against a blind and deaf doctrinaire state power that denies the facts.

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Mar 19, 2024

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Jätkän tie

Dec 25, 1996

Retired lumber jacks talk about their careers in forest industry of Lapland.

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Škůdci listnatých lesů

Jan 1, 1954

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Škůdci jehličnatých lesů

Jan 1, 1954

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6.9

Simona Kossak

Nov 22, 2024

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Once Upon a Time in a Forest

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