Whispers in the Woods | With Q&A

After The Velvet Queen, in which he ventured into the Tibetan Plateau in search of the elusive snow leopard, nature photographer and filmmaker Vincent Munier returns to the landscape that shaped him: the forests of the Vosges. Together with his father Michel and his son Simon, he enters the woods, where mist hangs between the trees and time seems to slow. Waiting in hides, listening to the forest, they observe lynxes, deer, owls, and other shy inhabitants.

Munier captures the interplay of light, silence, and movement in images that reveal the forest as a living, breathing whole, where every encounter is rare and meaningful. At the same time, an intimate portrait of three generations unfolds, united by their shared attentiveness to nature. What the father once passed on to the son is now handed down again: patience, wonder, and respect for the invisible life around them. Whispers in the Woods is a poetic nature film and a personal ode, in which Munier brings together his love for his family and for the forest in a sensory, almost fairy-tale-like cinematic experience.

Q&A after the screening
Marc Argeloo is a well-known name in the Dutch nature world. He is the author of Nature Amnesia, in which he describes how knowledge of nature’s richness is slowly disappearing from our collective consciousness. As a passionate birdwatcher and conservationist, he has been following the development of bird populations and the Dutch landscape for decades.
Timo Roeke is a full-time bird conservationist at Vogelbescherming Nederland. He has been out in the field since childhood, using his grandfather’s binoculars to search for birds in the forests and peat bogs of Twente. Birds have become the common thread running through his life.