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The project "Sengirės kinas", which combines cinema and environmental protection, invites you to a film screening at the Birštonas Public Library. On March 26, at 5:00 p.m., the documentary film "From the Depths" will be shown.
More about the film DEEP RISING (Director: Matthieu Rytz, USA, 93 min., 2023, English with Lithuanian subtitles)
"From the Depths" is a stunning documentary journey to the least explored territory on Earth - the ocean floor. Paradoxically, we know more about the surface of Mars today than about what lies thousands of meters below. Where sunlight does not reach, complex ecosystems exist that have perfectly adapted to difficult-to-understand conditions: life boiling around hydrothermal vents, organisms of the strangest forms, and an environment that may resemble Earth billions of years ago. For scientists, these depths are a living laboratory that holds possible answers to the fundamental question: how did life originate on Earth?
However, this uncharted space, inaccessible to humans, has become a new target for industry. The rare metals hidden at the bottom of the ocean, on which the development of green energy depends, tempt the world's powerful to start mining them as soon as possible. However, mechanized intervention could irreversibly disrupt the fragile ecosystems of the deep earth and further distance us from the answers they may hold about the mystery of life and our own origins.
The film addresses dilemmas related to green energy and rhetorically asks: do we have the right to destroy what we do not yet understand? "From the Depths" is a story about the boundary between knowledge and destruction, between curiosity and greed. About a choice that will determine not only the future of the ocean, but also our own.
Movie trailer: https://tinyurl.com/3j6862es
The screening is free, and viewers who wish to show their gratitude are invited to support the Sengirė Foundation (www.sengiresfondas.lt)
This film is being screened by Sengirės Kinas on March 23-April 2 on more than 80 screens across Lithuania. You can find the project map here: https://sengireskinas.lt/lokacijos/
More about the project:
“Sengirės Kinas” is a project combining cinema and nature and ecology education, inspired by the impact of Mindaugas Survila’s film “Sengirė” on the protection of old-growth Lithuanian forests. The documentary poem, beloved by the audience, showed that cinema can become a powerful tool for arousing curiosity and respect for nature, from which real changes begin. Thanks to this film and the “Sengirės Fondo”, the word sengirė today means not only the most biologically valuable type of forest – it has become a synonym for good cinema, nature knowledge and conservation.
Responsibly bearing this name, “Sengirės Kinas” lights up the screens of cultural centers in Lithuanian cities and towns at the same time every month, inviting viewers to pay attention to nature. Carefully selected films from all over the world that reveal the beauty and fragility of nature are shown together with presentations by scientists and experts that actualize them in the Lithuanian context. The film program is also accompanied by live meetings, discussions, excursions and other events that draw attention to the state of Lithuania’s ecology. “Sengirės Kinas” is a platform where cinema becomes a tool for change, and viewers – a community of change.
