
Green
Green is an orangutan living in the rainforests of Borneo, and the film follows her without a single word of narration or dialogue, letting the images and ambient sound carry the whole account. Director Patrick Rouxel's camera moves between the forest canopy and the machinery tearing it down: chainsaws felling trees, bulldozers clearing ground for palm oil plantations, and haze from fires that spread across the cleared land. Green herself appears increasingly isolated and injured as her habitat shrinks around her, and the film holds on these scenes rather than cutting away or explaining them with a voiceover. Shots of intact rainforest, dense and quiet, are set directly against the stump fields and burning ground left behind, so the contrast does the work that narration would normally do. There are no interviews, no statistics on screen, no expert commentary, just the forest, the logging operation, and the orangutan caught between them. The film has won several festival awards for this stripped-down, image-only approach to documenting deforestation in Indonesia.