Darßer NaturfilmFestival 2025: Program section "Competition"
Mammoths and wolves are set to return to save endangered habitats. Researchers around the world are working to recreate animal species that have disappeared. Using modern biotechnology and genetic engineering, they are extracting the blueprints of genetic material thought to be lost from museum specimens. Is this a hope for an intact nature or is science playing God - with unforeseeable consequences?
Germany // 2024 // 52 min. // FSK 6
Director: Herbert Ostwald
Written by: Herbert Ostwald
Cinematography: Ewen Allport, Thomas Henkel, Florian Kössl, Marco Landini, Kevin Rosenberg, Erik Sick
Editing: Jan Stefan Kolbe
Music: Jörg Seibold
Editing: Ann-Christin Hornberger (ZDF)
Producer:in: Julia Göring
Producer:in: Patrick Hörl, Andreas Martin
Production: Autentic Studios, ZDF, ZDFinfo, Arte
Herbert Ostwald
Herbert Ostwald is a journalist, director and documentary filmmaker. He is considered one of the most renowned German representatives of this genre. Since 1995, Ostwald has been making short and long films about people, animals and culture at an international level for ARD, ZDF, ARTE, Terra Mater and National Geographic.
