Trees have friends.

Trees talk to each other and send over resources when a neighbor is in need. Trees nurture their children. Trees sound the alarm about environmental threats. Trees grow stronger and more vigorous when raised in diverse communities, and they struggle in artificially planted, monoculture forests where all of the trees are the same age. Trees are, as it turns out, social and more than a little like us.

So says forester and bestselling author Peter Wohlleben, whose book, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World (Greystone Books), inspired a feature-length documentary by the same name directed by Jörg Adolph and Jan Haft.

It’s a gorgeous film. Haft’s camerawork and Adolph’s direction deliver evocative, immersive portraits of roots, trunks, canopies, and stunning views of the night sky looking up from the forest floor, accompanied by voiceover readings from Wohlleben’s often poetic book. We hike alongside the German forester through a 4,000-year-old beech forest in Hümmel as he translates scientific studies into accessible and passionate messages about the magical interconnectedness and constant communication among forest plants that is going on right under our feet.