Does Anybody Hear?
Liesl Lafferty
Canada, 2025, 7 min.
In English.
This film is family friendly.
An uninspired logger aims to cut down a healthy Western Red Cedar, but peculiar pranks start to happen in this enchanted forest which may prevent her from making her quota for the day.
Director's Statement
As a Vancouverite, I live amongst the giant trees of the Coastal temporal rainforest, one of the most important sources of oxygen on our planet. I walk in the forest a lot. I talk to the trees. A few years ago, I caught wind of the work of Suzanne Simard. Through her research, she discovered “plant communication and intelligence”. A Mother Tree can identify her saplings and send them extra water or carbon through her roots to an underground mycorrhizal fungal network. Her conclusion is “Trees talk to one another.” Inspired by her findings, I created this short film.
Category: Short, Dramedy.
Themes: Environment, World Cinema.
Saturday, April 18
The Screening Room
12:00pm
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