Where the Forest Thickens
Something of Europe's past sleeps inside the box, and now the box will awake.
2017 · 1h 31m · N/A Drama
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.
Director and cast
- Arantxa Aranguren as Antonia
- Carolina Herrera as Ana / Antonia (grandmother)
- Mélida Molina as Chatty woman / Almira
- Juanjo Cucalón as Zoran
- Puchi Lagarde as Isabel / Emiliana / Irena
- Antonio Sarrió as Bernardo Roig / Esteban / Man / Historian
- Carlo Mtez-Alfaro as Young Zoran
- Aurora Herrero as Teresa / Carmen / Muslim woman
- Néstor Ballesteros as Musician
- Pablo Béjar as Narrator / Photographer
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