The Forest for the Trees

Sep 16, 2004

1h 21m

★ 6.5

Overview

As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg (MFG)

Komplizen Film

Rat Pack Filmproduktion

Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe

KaufmannWöbke GbR

SWR

ARD

Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München

The Forest for the Trees Trailers

Cast

Melanie Pröschle

Eva Löbau

Tina Schaffner

Daniela Holtz

Thorsten Rehm

Jan Neumann

Frau Sussmann

Ilona Schulz

Tobias

Robert Schupp

Lutger Reinhardt

Heinz Röser-Dümmig

Renate Pföhler

Martina Eckrich

Bine

Nina Fiedler

Gerd Postweiler

Hans-Rüdiger Kucich

Elvira Fischer-Walter

Ruth Köppler

Bernd

Achim Enchelmaier

Melanies Mutter

Monika Hirschle

The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry Traffic Officer who loves his job, being the perfect outlet for his anger and frustrations. Coming both from a place of despair and loneliness, Jay and Claire meet and engage in a tumultuous relationship which will eventually teach them that love can spread redemption.

5.7

I taket lyser stjärnorna

Jan 30, 2009

Young adolescent girl Jenna's mother is dying, while at the same time Jenna is turning from a young girl into a young woman. So it is difficult for her to admit that she is afraid to lose her mother; instead she behaves contrary to how one would expect.

5.5

Irresistible

Apr 18, 2006

A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.

6.0

Year of the Turtle

Nov 17, 1988

The story of an impossible love between a 60 years old jobless bookkeeper and an unpredictable 40 years younger woman, who seems to be in big troubles.

6.0

Princess Fragrance

Aug 28, 1987

Princess Fragrance is a 1987 Hong Kong film based on Louis Cha's novel The Book and the Sword. The film is a sequel to The Romance of Book and Sword, which was released earlier in the same month and was also directed by Ann Hui.

6.3

The Jammed

Mar 20, 2007

A young Australian woman reluctantly agrees to help a Chinese mother search for her missing daughter and becomes involved in human trafficking and the sex slave trade.

6.6

Morvern Callar

Nov 1, 2002

After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.

6.0

Comme t'y es belle !

May 10, 2006

Isa, Alice, Léa and Nina, linked by their Sephardic families as much as by their friendship, share their lives between love affairs, a beauty institute under fiscal control, children to raise, an undocumented Moroccan nanny to marry, repeated diets, family and religious holidays to honor, but before being beautiful, their biggest challenge is to be themselves.

4.9

Go Fish

Jun 10, 1994

Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely, whom Max likes, but Ely is frumpy, homely, and older. Nor do they have much in common. Can Max learn to look past the packaging?

5.6

Don't Look Back

Jun 3, 2009

Panic attacks and memory loss signal the plight of a writer whose body is inexplicably being taken over by another woman.

6.5

The One and Only

Apr 1, 1999

When kitchen fitter Niller comes to install Sus's new suite, their immediate attraction to one another proves a sweet escape from both of their problematic relationships.

6.2

Stander

Oct 10, 2003

The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.

5.9

Marion Bridge

Apr 18, 2003

When three estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying mother, old conflicts and secrets return to the surface.

6.5

Cold Sassy Tree

Oct 16, 1989

In the early 20th century, an independent lady from up North causes a scandal when she decides to wed an older local general-store owner just three weeks after he's been widowed.

3.9

The Truth About Beauty

Apr 4, 2014

A recently graduated and intelligent young woman sees plastic surgery as essential to succeeding in both her career and romantic aspirations.

8.0

Lili et le baobab

May 3, 2006

Aged 33, Lili goes to Africa for the first time in her life, to Agnam, a Sahelian village in the northeast of Senegal.

6.1

Royal New Year's Eve

Dec 30, 2017

An aspiring fashion designer falls in love with her socialite client's prospective fiance, Prince Jeffrey.

9.0

Dedication

Jul 4, 2021

A young maid enlists supernatural help in order to escape her past.

5.7

Honey Cigar

Sep 2, 2020

Paris, 1993. Selma, 17, lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets and is strongly attracted to Julien, a dashing young man, she realizes for the first time the heavy rules of her patriarchal family and how they affect her intimacy. As Islamism takes over her country of origin and her family crumbles, Selma discovers the power of her own desire. She must resist and fight. Through the strength of her people, she starts walking down the path of what it means to become a free woman.

4.9

Anatomy of a Love Seen

Jul 28, 2014

A film within a film that explores love in all its painful and messy glory. Six months ago Zoe and Mal fell for each other while filming a love scene, which led to an intense, whirlwind affair, followed by a devastating breakup. Soon after their split, things get complicated when the two have to meet on set once more to re-shoot that fateful sequence.