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Forest

dir. Piotr Dumała / Poland 2009 / 76’

subtitles: English

New Polish Films Competition 33 Scenes from Life, Afonia and Bees, Before Twilight, Forest, Four Nights with Anna, Mall Girls, Miracle Seller, My Flesh, My Blood, Rebound, Scratch, Snow White and Russian Red, Splinters, Unmoved Mover Section index

retrospective: Piotr Dumała Forest, A Standard Scene, Absolut Panuszka, Academy Leader Variations, Anima, Crime and Punishment, Declaration of Human Rights, Floating Hair, Franz Kafka, Gentle Spirit, Hindenburg’s Death, Jittery Life, Little Black Riding Hood, Lycantrophy, MTV Ident Charlatan, MTV Ident Everywhere, MTV Ident Horse, MTV Ident Kafka meets Dostojewski, Nervous Life of Cosmos, Stop AIDS, The Freedeom of a Leg, The Good Lady, The Island of R.O., Transformation, Walls, Wieje piaskiem od strony wojny Section index

Cast

Stanisław Brudny, Mariusz Bonaszewski

Film description

A film with actors and animated elements. An elderly, ill father and a son who takes care of him. Everyday nursing, difficulties with eating, fragments of conversations. And parallel sequences of them travelling through a forest together. A poignant story about what is the most important - searching for mutual contact, breaking barriers, trust, feelings, the need for closeness.