Europes Forgotten Giants WCFF 2025
Wildlife Conservation Film Festival 2025
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10m
A story about Europe´s largest terrestrial mammal and their potential return in Swedish forests. The audience also meets Rikard, who works at Avesta Visentpark and who shares his inner reflections and hopes regarding the future of the European Bison.
Filmmaker William "Wille" Pääjärvi is a 23-year-old filmmaker, raised in the mining town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. From 2021 to 2024, he studied Moving Image Production at Dalarna University and produced several short films.
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