De Nieuwe Wildernis

De Nieuwe Wildernis (English: The New Wilderness) is a 2013 Dutch natural history documentary film about the nature reserve Oostvaardersplassen in the Netherlands. The film shows animal life during four seasons, based on two years of filming in the reserve.^[1]

Wild koniks in the Oostvaardersplassen

De Nieuwe Wildernis
Directed by	Ruben Smit Mark Verkerk
Produced by	Ton Okkerse Ignas van Schaick
Narrated by	Harry Piekema
Cinematography	Ruben Smit Michael Sanderson
Edited by	Niels Roza
Music by	Bob Zimmerman
Distributed by	Dutch FilmWorks
Release date	26 September 2013 (2013-09-26)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Netherlands
Language	Dutch

Animals

43 different animal species are being shown and also mentioned in the film, per class these are the following.^[2]

Mammals

• brown rat
• Eurasian beaver
• Konik horse
• red deer
• red fox

Birds

• barnacle goose
• bearded reedling
• bluethroat
• common buzzard
• common kingfisher
• common nightingale
• common raven
• common reed bunting
• common starling
• Eurasian bittern
• European goldfinch
• Eurasian spoonbill
• European robin
• great cormorant
• great crested grebe
• great egret
• greylag goose
• little grebe
• mute swan
• Savi's warbler
• sedge warbler
• water rail
• western yellow wagtail
• white-tailed eagle

Amphibians

• common frog
• natterjack toad

Fish

• common carp

Insects

• ant
• aphid
• blowfly
• Colletes cunicularius
• green-veined white
• ladybird beetle
• large earth bumblebee
• Ranatra linearis
• small cabbage white
• yellow dung fly

Branchiopods

• water flea

Awards

• Film Poster Award (2013) at the Netherlands Film Festival^[3]
• Golden Film (2013) for 100,000 visitors^[1]
• Platinum Film (2013) for 400,000 visitors^[4]
• Rembrandt Award for Best Dutch Film (2014)^[5]
• Golden Calf for Best Popular Film (2014) at the Netherlands Film Festival^[6]