Event Info
Hannah Papacek Harper, United Kingdom/France, 2025, 93mins
WOW Film Festival presents this poetic, chorale documentary celebrating our relationship with nature. Inspired by Robert Macfarlane and Welsh writer and illustrator Jackie Morris’ beloved book The Lost Words, the film journeys across the UK, weaving the voices of children, elders, artists, and scientists through the four seasons, each with its own colour, sound, and atmosphere. By observing landscapes closely and exploring disappearing nature-related vocabulary, it reflects on what we are losing and how language shapes our connection to the natural world. Lyrical and visually rapturous, it offers a hopeful invitation to reawaken wonder and reconnect with nature.
The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with the film’s director, Hannah Papacek Harper, chaired by poet, academic, and Welsh language advocate Mererid Hopwood — the first woman to win the National Eisteddfod’s Chair, Crown, and Prose Medal. Mererid is also the author of the Welsh translation of The Lost Words (Geiriau Diflanedig), and a professor in the Welsh Department at Aberystwyth University. She has worked on the Year of Indigenous Languages with Wales Arts International and is widely celebrated for her contributions to Welsh poetry and literature.
