With Le chant des forêts, Vincent Munier returns to the forests of the Vosges, where he learned to observe and remain silent as a child. After La panthère des neiges, he has chosen not to focus on exotic fauna, but rather on the area where he grew up, with his father Michel and his teenage son Simon as guides through the landscape and through time.

The film is sober and carefully constructed. Fog, snow and silence dominate the image; animals rarely appear spectacularly, but always meaningfully. Munier observes how the ecosystem is shifting, without resorting to drama or didacticism.

What remains is a modest plea for humility. By placing humans and animals side by side in the end credits, Munier emphasises what his film subtly suggests: we are part of the same fabric. Le chant des forêts slows down, silences and invites us to listen again to what a forest can tell us.