The Hidden Life of Trees(Das geheime Leben der Bäume)

Name: The Hidden Life of Trees
Genre: Documentary

Germany · 2020
1h 41m
Director Jörg Adolph
Starring Peter Wohlleben
Genre Documentary

Based on the book of the same name, this documentary centers around forester and author Peter Wohlleben, and his theory that trees are social, sentient beings that communicate with each other. Traveling through forests, he explains and discusses the biological activity that occurs in the woodlands outside of human awareness.

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The New York Times by Devika Girish

The documentary The Hidden Life of Trees uses the sensorial capacities of cinema to thrillingly visualize Wohlleben’s observations.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Kate Taylor

Based on the 2015 book of the same title, The Hidden Life of Trees is a documentary both simple and startling.

RogerEbert.com by Nell Minow

By the end of this film, you might think that understanding trees on such human terms is not even close to doing them justice.

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

If you’re tempted into the woods by this film, maybe you’ll be a little more open to the idea of “individual rights” gathered in number to battle “corporate rights” in search of a more sane and sustainable way of looking at the forest, and the trees within it.