Behold with wonderment as hundreds of furry-faced bats emerge from their cave at sunset. Or as some locals may have witnessed, emerging from the Rafael when a few winged trespassers shut it down temporarily last winter! Against the backdrop of the sixth mass extinction, an all-women team of dedicated biologists sets out to save bats from a deadly fungal disease and are sent down a path of discovery that illuminates the connections between bat conservation and the spread of infectious disease.

In stunning slow-motion cinematography, The Invisible Mammal quickly debunks the unsavory reputation that unfairly besmirch these fascinating creatures. We fear what we don’t understand and being the only mammals that can fly—primarily at night—bats defy the expectations of a small mammal and have surprising physiological and anatomical adaptations for survival. By immersing the audience viscerally and emotionally, director Kristin Tièche has succeeded in making bats understood more fully by bringing them into the limelight.