Trail Baltic. A trip to the green

Levila presents. The year was 2020. Disputes over Rail Baltic divided Estonia in two. On one side were people who said they wanted to take the train to Berlin or Riga. They said that the train is more environmentally friendly than the road and that Estonia needs this railway. On the other side, there were people who said that the railway was destroying nature, that the engineers had thought of nothing but how to draw the straightest possible line for the tracks. Even if it goes through pristine swamps, bird and animal habitats and backyards. At the same time, work was already underway to build the railway. Earth drills and saws rumbled in the woods. A new traffic junction for the railway was built near Tallinn. One woman puts on cameras and walks the Rail Baltic route through Estonia. He is doing a live broadcast to Levila and this film at the same time. On his journey, he meets the soul of Estonian people. "Our story could also be told from the Nursipalu training ground, the wind farms of Saaremaa, the pulp mill by Emajõgi or the nuclear power plant, because in all these examples great technological ideas clash with the desire to preserve something that is extremely important to some of us," says Daniel Vaarik, the founder of Levila, to introduce the film. "Trail Baltic" is not a documentary in a traditional format, it is a road movie through Estonian bushes, ditches, bogs and groves. This is a film where encounters with people are random, direct and honest. A film that is neither for nor against Rail Baltic, but that shows the plurality of opinions, the process of coping with changes, and captures life and landscapes in one vanishing moment in time," adds the film's director, Marianne Kõrver.