In the Forest

Pascale Ferland

In the Forest is a documentary essay that explores the deep connections between humans, animals, and the forest. Through fragments of lives that intersect, echo, or contradict one another, the film gradually weaves the portrait of a rich, complex, and sometimes unsettling world where the desire to protect coexists with the drive to exploit. Moving between realism, political engagement, and dreamlike imagery, it reveals a forest that — in the face of multiplying climate upheavals and an accelerating sixth mass extinction — whispers, to those who know how to listen, the urgent need to safeguard the fragile balance between humanity, fauna, and flora.