Lost for Words | WATCH DOCS

This lyrical and visually stunning meditation on our vanishing connection with nature unfolds like a manifesto, a call to rebuild our bond with the living world, where sweeping shots of majestic seaside cliffs intertwine with intimate close-ups of insects and plants, while forgotten words echo through the narration. Hannah Papacek Harper reminds viewers that with every disappearing ecosystem, our language loses the words to name it, and with them, our ability to remember. How much longer will we truly understand what heaths, groves, or wetlands are? By giving voice to children, people with Alzheimer’s, scientists, artists, and activists, the director opens new ways of perceiving nature and poses piercing questions. Can museum exhibits teach us more about life than hugging a tree? What rights should rivers and forests possess?  

Konrad Wirkowski