Intelligent Trees (Intelligente Bäume)

Trees talk, know family ties, and care for their young? Is this too fantastic to be true? Scientist Suzanne Simard of the University of British Columbia and German forester and author Peter Wohlleben have been investigating and observing the communication between trees over decades. And their findings are most astounding. Trees are so much more than rows of wood waiting to be turned into furniture, buildings or firewood. They are more than organisms producing oxygen or cleaning the air for us. They are individual beings that have feelings, know friendship, have a common language, and look after each other. This documentary explores the various ways that trees communicate with each other—from a forester’s observations as well as through the microscope of a scientist. The film centers around the groundbreaking scientific discoveries that Suzanne Simard has been making in the Canadian Wilderness since the 1990s and that seem to be valid for all natural forests around the world.