Where humanity’s reliance on the the natural world and its resources is plain to see, the decline of the landscape at our own hands grows ever clearer. As ecosystems are destabilized and wildlife gradually disappears, we find ourselves on a precipice, the impact of human intervention escalating to the point of crisis.

In short film Yhdessä Yössä – translated as Overnight – Finnish director Silja Minkkinen considers the changing face of her native environment, and the threat to this biodiverse region as its marshlands dry out, and insect populations diminish. Based on the words of poet Oona Linna, and brought together by meticulous sound design, the film journeys through forests suffocated by smoke, and endangered marshlands, its character standing in synthesis with nature.

Parallel to nature’s plea for help, and its request for connection, the emotional landscape of the film’s central figure changes color over the day’s course, her reflections transitioning from despair to hope. Reinforcing the need to remember and conserve it, Yhdessä Yössä unfolds as a love letter to Planet Earth, told through distant memories from a better time, and the sounds and scents of a childhood spent embedded in nature.