Kinopremiere: IM LAND DER WÖLFE von Ralf Bücheler

In the organizer's words:

MOVIE PREMIERE: IN THE LAND OF WOLVES

Director: Ralf Bücheler

Guest:

René Oberhauser (Spokesman for the Wolf Expert Committee of the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Germany (Nabu)) & Alessandro Sgro (lynx and wolf consultant)

100 years after their extinction, wolves are returning to Germany, an industrialized country full of people. They are coming back because we let them. We have decided this democratically. Their return is an expression of the change in our approach to nature. We are ready to share dominion over the earth again, partly because we realize that we are going under: As sole rulers, we will perish.

"In the Land of Wolves" tells of the lives of our new neighbors. The animals do not live in an enchanted wilderness in nature reserves, but in our midst. They find niches in the cultural landscape. They retreat into the wastelands of old open-cast mines, use our paths, cross highways and run through villages. Their pups play with our waste and drink from the furrows left in the forest floor by machines. Sometimes wolves eat farm animals.

And many people have a deep-seated fear of them. The wolves' land grab challenges us - actors from administration, science, agriculture, politics, nature conservation and the population discuss the world of wolves in Germany.

Content warning: The film contains images of the autopsy of dead wolves.