Plaisance. Cinema meeting, this Saturday

Saturday June 20 at 9 p.m., Europe cinema, preview screening of the documentary “The forest of the visible and invisible princess” in the presence of its author Ernst Zürcher and Jean-Pierre Duval, followed by an exchange with the public. This event is the result of a partnership with the “Peace with the Earth” conference which will take place in Monlezun on June 20 and 21. Ernst Zürcher is a forestry engineer at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. He defended a thesis on the morphology of trees and the anatomy of wood. He worked on the links between trees and humans. He considers that the health of humanity is inseparable from that of forests. Ernst Zürcher reports that trees are beneficial to health and discusses forest bathing as well as notions of sylvotherapy from Japanese Shinrin-Yoku traditions. What is this wild forest which was venerated by the ancients, and which inspires the great artists of our time, such as Miyazaki in “Princess Mononoke”, a forest inhabited by a Deer who is both visible and invisible? A forest that helps us understand how to restore the Earth to its lost harmony. Modern science, thanks to its methods and new concepts, is able to gradually identify what the “collective intelligence” of a forest, its spirit, can be. Preserving old-growth forests is vital for biodiversity, climate regulation and the health of our planet. Contact tel 05 62 69 59 01.