Sarah Ziegler, Simon Straetker & Joshi Nitchell

When you think of wilderness, images of natural landscapes spring to mind. Species-rich forests, raging rivers, mighty glaciers. But does truly untouched nature still exist in Europe? A young film team sets off to discover the last natural treasures of our continent. They soon realize that wilderness is much more than just a dot on the map.

Wilderness safeguards biodiversity, helps the climate and protects habitats. But wilderness does not receive the protection it needs everywhere. The last untouched stretches of land are threatened by illegal timber trade, poaching and destruction.

On their travels to Southern and Eastern Europe, the young filmmakers and photographers Sarah Ziegler, Simon Straetker and Joshi Nichell meet a number of inspiring people, including mountaineers, conservationists, activists and scientists. What unites them all is a great love of nature and an unwavering passion to work for its preservation. There is Roberto, for example, who has been campaigning for brown bears in Spain for over forty years, Mican, who is following his vision as a national park ranger in Montenegro, and Romana, a biologist in Austria who is dedicated to the hidden world of insects.

In a visually and cinematically stunning multivision presentation, the film team takes the audience to the primeval forests of Romania, the Cantabrian mountains and the underwater world of the Mediterranean. The presentation is a tribute to nature and shows in a humorous and touching way how beautiful and fragile Europe's wilderness is and how important it is to us all.

Simon Straetker is a filmmaker, globetrotter and environmental ambassador who produces inspiring films and photographs about the most remote areas of the world. He was awarded the German Nature Conservation Award and was included in Forbes Magazine's "30 under 30 Europe" list in the arts category in January 2017.

Sarah Ziegler is a filmmaker and diver. She studied biology and works for the film production company Black Forest Collective. She is a member of the board of Wild Europe e.V., a

non-profit organization that promotes wilderness and biodiversity through multimedia projects in Europe.

Joshi Nichell studies conservation biology and Catholic theology and has been fascinated by the power of nature since childhood, sometimes traveling for weeks at a time with his backpack. He works as a wildlife filmmaker, nature photographer and travel consultant.