🌿 The Last Wild Neighbours | Nature's Hidden Crisis in Central Europe

Most of us live far from true wilderness — but nature still clings on, often unnoticed, in the fields, hedgerows, and farmland that surround us. This documentary takes you on a journey through Central Europe's "civilised landscape," home to over 70,000 species of animals, fungi, and plants, many surviving on nothing more than small islands of habitat.

Meet the creatures that have shared our fields for thousands of years — the European hamster, the quail, the grey partridge — once so abundant they were considered pests, now teetering on the edge of extinction. Discover the secret nightlife of wildflowers that bloom only in darkness, and the solitary bees and wasps that build intricate nurseries in the bare soil of farm tracks.

But beneath this beauty lies a warning: decades of agricultural intensification, chemical fertilizers, and billions in subsidies have pushed wild species to the margins — quite literally. The film traces how excess nitrogen, from fertilizers, traffic, and industry, travels from fields to rivers to the Baltic Sea, smothering seagrass meadows, starving ecosystems of light, and unraveling food webs few of us ever see.

A sobering yet hopeful look at what's left of the wild in our farmed landscapes — and why protecting it is not a burden, but an opportunity for us all.