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LIFE UNDER PALM TREES
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The ecovillage Sieben Linden (meaning "seven linden trees") is a community of about 40 adults plus children (at the time of shooting) who plan to build a new village in a rural, conservative part of Germany with high unemployment and little cultural infrastructure. Some 300 people are supposed to live an ecologically and socially oriented life there one day.
Michael Wuerfel lived and filmed in the community for four months in the summer of 2001 to report about the project and to give an insight into the remarkable aspects of life there life there: the division in smaller groups within the big community, the ecological challenge of building a house solely with regional materials and without machines, the relations to the people that live in the nearby villages. "Life under Palm Trees was published in 2002 and has become a classic in ecovillage history.
The DVD Editon 2009 features a 15 minute supplemental film from 2009 that presents the most important developments since 2001. It includes English and Spanish subtitles for both the feature and the supplemental film "Seven Years Later", with special subtitle versions for the hearing impaired.
 The selfsustaining garden |
The ecovillage Sieben Linden (meaning "seven linden trees") is a community of about 50 adults plus children who plan to build a new village in a rural, conservative part of Germany with high unemployment and little cultural infrastructure. |
 The summercamp-Choir |
Some 300 people are supposed to live an ecologically and socially oriented life there one day. |
 A lot of sky in the Eco-Village... |
Filmmaker Michael Würfel lived in the community for four months in the summer of 2001 and tries to report about the project and to give an insight into the quite remarkable aspects of life there life there: the division in smaller groups within the big community, the ecological challenge of building a house solely with regional materials and without machines, the relations to the people that life in the nearby villages. |
The Film was shown on the following Filmfestivals:
Ökomedia Freiburg 2002
Prix Leonardo, Parma, Italien 2003
FIFE Kairouan, Tunesien 2004
and moreons to the people that life in the nearby villages.
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A Production by Michael Würfel |