For millions of years bees have been laboriously building the natural environment of our planet. Today they are dying on an unprecedented scale. Urban beekeeping and reintroducing the tradition of wild-bee keeping - keeping wild bees in forests - seems one of the ways of saving them. Maybe by reaching for the past, and the original environment and model of co-existence of bees and people, can help us save them?

Followed bya Q&A with Dorota Roszkowska, Krystian Matysek & Michał Białożej.

Nominated for the People and Nature Award / Poland / 76 mins / Arkana Studio co-produced with ARTE G.E.I.E.; Telewizja Polska S.A; Studio Produkcyjne ORKA sp. z o.o.; MX35 Wajda Szlenkier Litwin SP.J

The screening will be preceded by the showing of Migratory Connectivity Project: Songbirds Return - a six minute short promoting the plight of US and Canadian songbirds.

Nominated for the Campaign Award / United States / 6 mins / Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Pangolin Pictures & Smithsonian Migratory Bird Centre.

Image Credit: Arkana

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