Forest for the Trees (2021)
You can’t plant a tree without believing in the future.
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 31分
演出 : Rita Leistner
シノプシス
Award-winning war photographer Rita Leistner goes back to her roots as a tree planter in the wilderness of British Columbia, offering an inside take on the grueling, sometimes fun and always life-changing experience of restoring Canada’s forests. Leistner, who has photographed some of the world’s most dangerous places, credits the challenge of tree-planting for her physical and mental endurance. In Forest for the Trees, her first feature film, she revisits her past to share the lessons she learned. The film introduces us to everyday life on the “cut-block” and the brave souls who fight through rough terrains and work endless hours to bring our forests to life. The rugged BC landscape comes to life magically in Leistner’s photography, while the quirky characters and nuggets of wisdom shared around the campfire tell a sincere story of community.
自然の恵み多き東京は多摩丘陵。そこに住むタヌキたちはのんびりとひそやかに暮していた。しかし、宅地造成による自然破壊によって、タヌキたちのエサ場が次第に少なくなっていた。自分たちの住処を守るため、タヌキたちは先祖伝来の“化け学”で人間たちに対抗することにする。
When a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy, Zak, down to her size, he vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destroying their home: the pristine rainforest known as FernGully. Zak and his new friends fight to defend FernGully from lumberjacks — and the vengeful spirit they accidentally unleash after chopping down a magic tree.
North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.
米西海岸北部。母親の遺産である一軒家を相続した若い女性リリアンはシアトルから故郷の田舎町に戻るが、ブラックウェイと呼ばれる謎の男から繰り返し嫌がらせを受ける。保安官に訴えても、町の人々に相談を持ち掛けても、ブラックウェイは危険人物なので町を去れと警告されるばかり。だが老男性レスターとその親戚である若者ネイトだけはリリアンに味方し、3人は誰も居所を知らないブラックウェイを見つけだそうと車で出発する。
建築現場で働く中年男性ジャックは日々酒に溺れ、妻アンジェラと別居し、空虚な毎日を送る。実はジャックは高校時代、バスケの実力を認められ、奨学金を出すという大学も数多くあったが、なぜかバスケの世界から遠ざかってしまった。そんなジャックは母校のビショップ・ヘイズ高校のある神父から、新しいヘッドコーチになって不振が続くバスケ部を立て直すよう頼まれる。申し出を引き受けたジャックはチーム再建に取り組むが……。
巨匠ポール・シュレイダー監督が構想50年の末に完成させたサスペンス。夫に出産を反対されている女性の相談を受けた神父が、教会が汚職企業から献金を受けていることを知らされ、内なる怒りに苦しむことに……。
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