Emptying the Skies

Mon Sep 15, 2014

19:00

Location

ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation
64 Ayion Omoloyiton Avenue
Nicosia, Nicosia 1080

Phone: 22455072

Description

BirdLife Cyprus with the support of NABU (partner of BirdLife International in Germany) and Heinz Sielmann Stiftung organises the first screening in Cyprus of the awarded documentary “Emptying the skies” and a discussion on illegal trapping of migratory birds in Cyprus.

The screening will take place on Monday, 15 September at 19:00 at ARTos Cultural Foundation in Nicosia.

The film explores the wonder of these tiny globe-flying marvels, millions of which are unlawfully slaughtered each year for large sums on the black market, and follows an intrepid squad of pan- European bird-lovers who risk their lives waging a secret war against poachers, disrupting illegal trapping and freeing as many birds as possible.

To make Emptying the Skies, the filmmakers spent nearly a year in the field, going from mission to mission, from summer to fall to winter to spring, embedded with our subjects as they operated their “camps” to confront poachers at critical migration pinch-points in Cyprus, France and Italy.

English dialogue, Greek subtitles

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