Fantastic Fungi,

looks like it will be the one of the hits of 2020,

with rave reviews the 81 minute long film looks like it will win more than a few prizes, the new film considers how mycelium and mushrooms have created an often-unseen network, similar to an underground internet, that has connected all living beings for the last 3.5 billion years,

featuring conversations with food journalist Eugenia Bone, mycologist Paul Stamets, and writer Michael Pollan, Fantastic Fungi: The Magic Beneath Us shows us how we rely on fungi for plant, tree and our own very existence to this unseen organisms, “It’s amazing what we don’t know about mushrooms. They really are a frontier of knowledge,” Pollan says in the film,

here is a short trailer for the film, screenings are scheduled worldwide through February 2020, you can follow updates on the film directed by Louie Schwartzberg and the broader fungi movement on Instagram, what a fascinating subject, and if the GIF and clip is anything to go by, a really interesting and different film, hopefully coming to the UK soon.