WHISPERS IN THE WOODS (U) 1h 39m

Wildlife photographer Vincent Munier returns to the French Vosges forests of his childhood with his father and young son, tracing a tender inheritance of attention, silence and wonder.

In the deep forests of France’s Vosges mountains, wildlife photographer and filmmaker Vincent Munier returns to the landscape that first taught him how to look. Accompanied by his father, a naturalist, and his 12-year-old son, Munier moves quietly through woodland, riverbank and mountain paths, waiting for fleeting encounters with lynx, deer, owls and the elusive capercaillie.

A box-office phenomenon in France, where it drew over one million cinema admissions, Whispers in the Woods is less a conventional nature documentary than a cinema of patience and attention. The drama lies in stillness: mist through the trees, animal calls in the dark, candlelit stories, and the careful passing of knowledge from one generation to the next. Munier’s camera finds grandeur in the smallest signs of life, while the film’s soundscape invites us to listen as much as look.