Where the Forest Thickens (2017)

Donde el bosque se espesa

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

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.

Date of release

2017-10-25

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Drama

Director

Laila Ripoll, Miguel Ángel Calvo Buttini

Casting

• Arantxa Aranguren — Antonia
• Carolina Herrera — Ana / Antonia (grandmother)
• Mélida Molina — Chatty woman / Almira
• Juanjo Cucalón — Zoran
• Puchi Lagarde — Isabel / Emiliana / Irena
• Antonio Sarrió — Bernardo Roig / Esteban / Man / Historian
• Carlo Mtez-Alfaro — Young Zoran
• Aurora Herrero — Teresa / Carmen / Muslim woman
• Néstor Ballesteros — Musician
• Pablo Béjar — Narrator / Photographer
• Carlos Jiménez Alfaro — Domingo / Marko

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