Hambach, a millenary forest in the heart of Europe, is the setting of an unique experiment of environmental resistance challenging the bulldozers of RWE, a multinational company that wants to destroy the wood in order to build a coal mining basin.
The forest community was born spontaneously in 2012, out of the meeting of activists and activists flocked all over from Germany and Europe and it is still a lively space of coexistence and a daily laboratory of libertarian politics.

A somewhat abstract and apparently timeless dimension, founded on the choice of absolute equality and friendship even with the non-human inhabitants of the forest, hidden in the depth of an ecosystem that is disappearing. A radical experience, now raised to a symbol by the ecological movements of half of Europe.
The film is the emotional journey through images and sounds in order to discover a life model that is spartan and rich at the same time, the romantic utopia of militants who for years have been keeping a giant multinational company on their knees, the second electric company in the world, interposing their own bodies among trees and bulldozers and the immense mechanical monster that transforms the forest into the dark land of the Mordor from Lord of the Rings, as they call the part of the forest already reduced to a barren desert.

A struggle, the one of the Hambachers, that can sound anti-technological, but actually has a very modern flavour: j'accuse against the irresponsibility of the world's energy giants and their predatory development model and nothing, except perhaps the widespread awareness that civil disobedience is practiced, seems to be able to change this course definitively.

Hambachers - Film

Hambachers - Film