Forests

10 10
2022
16min

Through interwoven narratives, this compelling documentary confronts the growing climate emergency, where water and fire collide, and nature fights to be heard.

AWARDS: Jury Prize. Trento Film Festival/ Granc Prize. Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois/ Night Award. Festival International Signes de Nuit/ Signs Awards. Festival Internacional Signos Da Noite/ Best Short Documentary. Seoul International Short Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Krakow Film Festival/ Edinburgh International Film Festival/ St. Louis International Film Festival/ Washington DC Shorts Film Festival/ DOXA Documentary Film Festival/ Dawson City International Short Film Festival/ Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival/ Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)/ Planet in Focus/ Quebec City International Film Festival/ Available Light Film Festival/ It's All True - International Documentary Film Festival/ Imagine Science Film Festival/ Festival International du Film sur l'Art - Artfifa/ Festival Vues Sur Mer/ FICwallmapu/ Moviate Underground Film Festival/ CineAutopsia/ Roma Short Film Festival

Forests - A vision of a world in crisis

On unceded Innu land, where history and destiny intertwine, a haunting environmental spectacle unfolds. Beneath the surface of a hydroelectric reservoir, long-submerged Eastern white pines seem to ignite, their spectral flames flickering through the water—a surreal and poetic vision of a world on the brink.

This gripping documentary interlaces multiple narratives, exposing the delicate fragility of ecosystems, the far-reaching consequences of human intervention, and nature’s quiet yet unyielding resilience in the face of climate catastrophe. As fire and water converge in a mesmerizing dance of destruction and renewal, the film compels us to reconsider our place within the natural world—before the balance is lost forever.