Green Nettle is a project that produces sustainable eco-material from large stinging nettles grown on the beautiful slopes of Mount Kenya. It brings livelihoods to local farmers and at the same time contributes to the fight against climate change. It rethinks sustainable fashion, producing lovely soft fabric and gives us a vision of how we enjoy the planet without destroying it.

Green Nettle

Green Nettle is a project that produces sustainable eco-material from large stinging nettles grown on the beautiful slopes of Mount Kenya.

Ever since the 1980s and 1990s, a time when logging in Borneo was some of the most intensive the world has ever seen, multiple companies received concessions from the government came, and came to Sungai Utik bearing money, but the elders and community at that time rejected them and demonstrated saying “we do not care about money, what we want is a richness of nature” and because of that the customary territory of Sungai Utik to this day is still covered in tall trees, the rivers still clear, and food source still plentiful.
After decades of struggle the Dayak Iban community of Sungai Utik finally received formal recognition for their customary forest, with a Decree from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia. Finally with this the community now have full rights to manage their customary forest according to their local wisdoms and traditions.
This is the story that will be told in the film, how the community first came to inhabit their customary territory, their fight to protect it from logging and other threats, their fight to receive legal recognition from the government, and the very meaning of the customary forest for the community.

Sungai Utik - The Fight for Recognition

A story of a customary community, that for decades have fought to protect their forest from logging and their fight for legal recognition.

In a small rural village, a young boy befriends Fernand and Andrée, a farmer couple who,
at 80 years old, find themselves at trouble feeding their remaining livestock. The boy
doubles his efforts to helps them but can't avoid the inevitable : they are forced to take the
terrible decision to first give up their donkey, than their cherished cows, sold to the
livestock-market.

When the swallows fly away

In a small rural village, a young boy befriends Fernand and Andrée, a farm er couple who, at 80 years old, find themselves at trouble feeding their remaining livestock.

Shorts Bundle: 3 Films on Sustainable Living + Products

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