LOST FOR WORDS
2026
How do you connect with nature? What does nature mean to you? Lost for Words takes its audience on a journey around the UK, portraying landscapes and the communities that live within them. Our starting point is the disappearance of nature words from the Oxford Junior dictionary in 2007. Inspired by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris’s best-selling book The Lost Words, it is lost words like acorn, otter, bluebell, dandelion that guide us through the film. We follow them through the seasons, to the most remote parts of the UK landscape, museum archives and into scientists' labs. Children, the elderly, scientists, artists and activists lend their voices to the landscape, telling us what they know, and sharing their emotional connection to nature, making us reflect on our own relationship to the nature that surrounds us. In the context of the current climate crises, we explore the possibilities of forging new relationships to the film’s main character: nature itself. Lost for Words is an invitation for each of us to reconnect to our own environment and sparks questions that are most present and pressing in all our lives: What is our future, and how can we approach it with kindness?
| Country: | France, United Kingdom |
| Language: | English, Scottish Gaelic |
| Runtime: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
| Director: | Hannah Papacek-Harper |
| Producer: | Dorian Blanc, John Archer, Rohan Berry-Crickmar |