The Family Forest

A Journey Through Generational Healing

What if the key to your present struggles lies buried in your family's past?

​The Family Forest explores the mysterious and powerful transmission of emotional trauma through generations — a phenomenon long recognized by pioneers like Anne Ancelin-Schützenberger, Bert Hellinger, and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Today, modern epigenetics confirms that trauma can alter gene expression — but how do these “unfinished stories” continue to shape us?

Through deeply personal experiences, filmmaker Louis Mouchet investigates this invisible inheritance:

• His  work on The Jodorowsky Constellation,
• A profound journey into her family history, triggered by the synchronicity of his mother's death and the birth of her first child.
• A transformational family constellation therapy session with Romanian therapist Cristina Schmidt,
• And ultimately, the very making of this film — a therapeutic act in itself.

​The Family Forest is both an intimate documentary and a universal exploration of healing,
​memory, and legacy.

Selected in 23 festivals around the world,
​awarded in 12 of them as best documentary, best psychological or best experimental film.

Interviews:

Ariane Giacobino
​ Medical Geneticist

Cristina Schmidt
 Transgenerational therapist
 Associate Professor, Bucharest University

Tony T. Gaillard
 Psycho-genetician
 Transgenerational therapist

Louis Mouchet &

Cristina Schmidt

Alexandro Jodorowsky

The film is available on Vimeo on Demand 
​and on major streaming platforms 

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