THE MUSHROOM SPEAKS explores the healing qualities of fungi and their ability to regenerate. This personal journey takes on a walk alongside parasites, symbionts and decomposers offering ideas of both interconnectedness and collaboration. Driven by a vision of resistance, the encounters seek possibilities of renewal and question what connects us when the world seems to be falling apart. With mushrooms and their allies the film invites to imagine a myco-cultural (r)evolution. What if the fungus could help us address and radically change our relationship to this world?

Join us in this underground adventure exploring the source of our existence.

Planet Soil is an exciting new movie that celebrates the beauty and importance of soil in our world. With its compelling storytelling and breathtaking imagery, Planet Soil invites us to appreciate, protect and reconnect with the vital role that soil plays in sustaining life on Earth. If you’re looking for an inspiring and visually captivating movie that celebrates the natural world, Planet Soil is a must-see.

A documentary about connections and encounters, entangled with a conversation on how fungi fuel dreams and never fail to wonder.

Giuliana Furci and Jean-Marc Moncalvo spent 10 days in a temperate rainforest in the Patagonian fjords and made this film that reflects on why mycologists go into the cold and wet forests to search for new species and on the way, encounter their inner selves.

Written and directed by Mateo Barrenengoa.

In the ultimate armchair travel adventure, the hero of fungi lovers across the globe, photographer Stephen Axford, is on the hunt for the answers we all want to know. A breathtaking and magical fungi safari to one of the most remote places on the planet – the eastern Himalayas.

The amazing story of nature’s great survivor: fungi. Not plant, not animal, but a distinct biological realm, fungi have been essential to the evolution of all life on land. And they may hold the key to mankind’s future.

This film takes you on a journey of mystical revelations through magic mushrooms and meditations. In ‘Descending the Mountain’ psychiatrist Franz Vollenweider and Zen master Vanja Palmers create a ground-breaking scientific experiment located on the majestic Mount Rigi in Switzerland. The film shows if and how, when united, psilocybin and meditation might expand our understanding of the nature of consciousness. Leaving the iconic visuals of the 60’s behind, ‘Descending the Mountain’ uses animation, sound, and A.I. to create a new visual language for the transcendent experience of oneness with nature.

Die magische Welt zu unseren Füßen nimmt uns mit auf eine fesselnde Reise in ein unterirdisches Netzwerk, das unseren Planeten heilen und retten kann. Mit den Augen renommierter Wissenschaftler und Mykologen wie Paul Stamets („dem bekanntesten Pilz-Experten der Welt“, SZ Magazin), werden Schönheit, Intelligenz und Lösungen aufgezeigt, die uns das Pilzreich als Antwort auf einige unserer dringlichsten medizinischen, therapeutischen und ökologischen Herausforderungen bietet. Unter der Regie von Louie Schwartzberg ist ein bewusstseinsverändernder Film entstanden, der bereits in den USA für Furore gesorgt und begeisterte Kritiken bekommen hat.

In the boreal forest ecosystem, deadwood is so much more than just a substrate to grow on. The amount of biodiversity which can be supported is intrinsically bound up with the amount and the diversity of deadwood. As our forests become more homogeneous, so too does the deadwood, and in turn, the species we find. Our ecologically fragmented landscapes select for a very small group of forestry-favoured species, and select against the vast majority of wood-inhabiting fungi, soil-dwelling fungi, as well as non-fungal saproxylic biodiversity. In what ways can we facilitate the formation of suitable habitats for rare & endangered species of fungi? What is important to think about when creating new deadwood? Why is it beneficial for conservation work to include Fungi in the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species? This is the first episode in a series about bringing the needs of Fungi into focus within conservation, ecological restoration, and forest management.