THE MUSHROOM SPEAKS

By Marion NEUMANN

INTERMEZZO FILMS - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2021

What if the fungus would cure and radically change society?
The Mushroom Speaks is a journey into possible alliances with the fungal reign. As if in an uprising of spores, the encounters address the theme of renewal, and question what connects us when the world seems to fall apart.

Festivals
& Awards

CPH DOX 2021
Main Competition Dox:Award
Visions du Réel 2021
National Competition
Krakow Film Festival 2021
Dokufest 2021
Docs Against Gravity 2021
One World 2021
Camden International Film Festival 2021
Smart and Sustainable Film Festival 2021
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Environmental
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, GERMAN, JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Marion NEUMANN
    • Writer(s)
    • Marion NEUMANN
    • Producer(s)
    • Luc PETER (INTERMEZZO FILMS), Katia MONLA (INTERMEZZO FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • The Mushroom Speaks is an essay that explores possible alliances with parasites, symbionts, and decomposers. While tracing the outlines of a mysterious being, the film reveals the fungus as a true immune system of the planet and, by extension, of ourselves. Its underground world-wide-web becomes the starting point to question
      our relations towards the natural world, and ourselves as natural beings, at this historical moment of transformation. Driven by a common vision of resistance, the movies encounters unveil the healing qualities of the fungal reign and its ability to regenerate. The Mushroom Speaks offers its audience a vision of interconnectedness and collaboration. With mushrooms and their allies, the film invites the viewer to participate in an innovative way to a myco-cultural revolution: the future is fungi!