Welcome to the Forest – Mind the Gap

Director: Jan Haft

If a former timber plantation is left to nature, trees sometimes die in times of climate change. A strange circumstance always becomes apparent: a once 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.

Best European Film Biodiversity: ‘Welcome to the Forest – Mind the Gap’ by Jan Haft

Jens Schröder, Henning Rodekohr, Melanie Haft, Jan Haft, Jörn Röver, Barbara Makowka