Preview screenings: Whispers in the Woods
June 22, 2026
Dear Programmer
The French Film Festival UK has joined forces with Dartmouth Films for their release of the stunning documentary Whispers in the Woods, directed by Vincent Munier. It is available for booking on DCP on standard preview terms 40/60 per cent in the exhibitor’s favour with a £100 MG applied per site. The film will be part of the official selection in the Showcase strand and feature in the Festival’s printed and electronic brochure as well as on socials.
Previews are available for booking between 6 and 12 November inclusive and thereafter as part of the release. Please request a screener and other marketing materials including evocative stills and an English language press kit. The Festival dates run from 4 November to 10 December. The film scored more than one million spectators in French cinemas.
“When I go into a school to meet children and see the look in their eyes after they’ve seen a film or a photo, I understand why I carry on. Lots of them tell me that their lives changed after watching a film, or reading a book or an article. That feedback, particularly from the young, is precious. They give me the strength to go on.”
Director Vincent Munier
Whispers in the Woods / Le Chant des Forêts
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Delving deep into the woodland realms, where lynxes, bears, deer , owls, capercaillies, and other river creatures roam, wildlife photographer and filmmaker Vincent Munier (The Velvet Queen) not only seeks to pay tribute once again to the visual splendour of nature but also to capture the forest’s poetic sounds. The whispers of the woods are echoing the whispers passed from Munier’s father to himself, and now to his own son. This becomes a heartfelt declaration of Munier’s love for his father , intertwining familial bonds with the untamed beauty of the natural world.
It won the Best Documentary César in the 2026 round of the French “Oscars” as well as a César for best sound.
Director Vincent Munier I France I 2025 I 90 mins I UK distributor Dartmouth Films
The most successful French documentary at the French box office since Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent’s T omorrow in 2015, which had 1.5 million spectators, and before that Luc Jacquet’s March of the Penguins in 2005, with 1.8 million.
