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The film “Sustainable Forest Management for the Aragvi Protected Landscape” depicts the assistance and efforts made by Czech experts to create the Aragvi Protected Landscape. The project entitled “Implementing Sustainable Forest Management for the Aragvi Protected Landscape” is the result of the partnership between the Czech Republic and Georgia within the framework of external development cooperation. The main theme and goal of the film is to introduce the public to what is hidden under this rather complex title. Through the team led by Tadeáš Štěrba, the audience will find themselves in an exotic area - the Greater Caucasus Range and directly in action on difficult terrain will get acquainted with the work of individual specialists (typologists, botanists, forest ecology experts and others) about whom the majority of the public knows very little. The roots from which the future Aragvi Protected Landscape should grow include not only nature, but also people, since the entire territory has been inhabited since ancient times. That is why the film focuses on important aspects of local culture - for example, the story about the writer and poet Vazha-Pshavale, whose main essence of creativity is the relationship with nature. Artist, writer and ethnographer Shota Arabuli provides us with information about the original inhabitants of the Aragvi Gorge in the film. Analyzing the history of the outflow of the population from the gorge is also an important aspect, since the return of people to this area is one of the goals of the project and the Aragvi Protected Landscape. In this context, an interesting motif for the viewer is the forest pedagogy lesson captured in the film, which was held for Georgian children at school and is aimed precisely at those children who should not leave the Aragvi territory in the future. The documentary aims to show how a project focused on a certain area (and projects similar to it) can help Georgia develop, help the local population so that they do not have to leave the places where they were born, and also how to preserve this territory in an unchanged form in the future.