Where the Forest Thickens

Oct 25, 2017

1h 31m

★ 0.0

Something of Europe's past sleeps inside the box, and now the box will awake.

Overview

A fusion of film and theatre based on the play of the same title by Micomicon. The film shows the play and its creative process. After her mother's death, Antonia finds a box which takes her and her daughter on a trip through Europe to former Yugoslavia. Remembrance, exhumations and wars. Life will not be the same.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Salto de Eje

Twin Freaks Studio S.C.

Micomicon

Where the Forest Thickens Trailers

Cast

Antonia

Arantxa Aranguren

Ana / Antonia (grandmother)

Carolina Herrera

Chatty woman / Almira

Mélida Molina

Zoran

Juanjo Cucalón

Isabel / Emiliana / Irena

Puchi Lagarde

Bernardo Roig / Esteban / Man / Historian

Antonio Sarrió

Young Zoran

Carlo Mtez-Alfaro

Teresa / Carmen / Muslim woman

Aurora Herrero

Musician

Néstor Ballesteros

Narrator / Photographer

Pablo Béjar

Domingo / Marko

Carlos Jiménez Alfaro

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