Wild Relatives Filming Locations
Where was Wild Relatives filmed? Wild Relatives was filmed in 4 locations across Lebanon and Svalbard and Jan Mayen in the following places:
Wild Relatives Filming Locations
Terbol, is a village located in the Zahlé District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon. The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas is located in the village.
Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole. One of the world’s northernmost inhabited areas, it's known for its rugged, remote terrain of glaciers and frozen tundra sheltering polar bears, Svalbard reindeer and Arctic foxes. The Northern Lights are visible during winter, and summer brings the “midnight sun”—sunlight 24 hours a day.
Sawiri or Sawairy or es-Sawairi is a town in the eastern part of Lebanon. It is located in the West Bekaa District near the Syrian border, in the governorate of Beqaa in the foothills of the eastern mountains.
Saadnayel is a town in the Bekaa Valley in the Zahlé District of Lebanon. It has a population of around 20,000 Lebanese mostly Sunnis. Saadnayel lies 47 kilometres away from Beirut.
Wild Relatives (2017)
Deep in the earth beneath the Norwegian permafrost, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Global Seed Vault to provide a backup should disaster strike. For the first time ever, seeds held there from a major gene bank in Aleppo are now being replicated, after its holdings were left behind when the institution had to move to Lebanon due to the civil war. It is refugees from Syria who are carrying out this painstaking work in the fields of the Beqaa Valley. In the Levant, dry conditions and the power of global agricultural corporations are the biggest challenge, while in the Arctic Circle - where the seed vault was supposed to withstand anything - it is rising temperatures and melting glaciers.