Deep beneath the Earth, the search for ghostly subatomic particles is revealing a new way to perceive the vastness of our universe through the lens of the infinitely small.

Smaller than an atom and moving through objects at the speed of life, these mysterious particles are named neutrinos, and they could potentially explain the existence of all matter. But in order to observe them, scientists must first travel into the eerie silence found only at the ends of the earth or at the bottom of some of the world's deepest mines. With stunning CGI animation and access to these surreal subterranean observatories in Canada, Japan and Antarctica, Messengers tracks the interstellar journey of a neutrino as it passes through our planet from the other side of a black hole.

Fresh from the Official Selection at Visions du Réel and DOXA, this mesmerising and metaphysical film maps both the vastness of geologic time and the shadowy depths of our unconscious, to reveal how listening to our planet can reveal the secrets of the universe.