The Forest In Me
Feature Documentary / 2024
Epic forests of the Siberian Taiga and black lava landscapes of a Hawaiian volcano are woven through this quietly powerful film that opens outwards from a personal story about living with uncertainty.
The filmmaker draws from footage she has shot over twenty years in an intimate address to her child in the future. She builds connections between Agafya Lykova, an elderly woman surviving alone in the Siberian forest who scares bears away by banging space-rocket debris, a crew simulating life isolated on Mars and her young child discovering the world minute by minute.
This endlessly surprising journey offers up images that shake ideas of past, present and future to form a deeply tender vision of the human connections that thread and weave through an ever more divided world.
Producers:
Electric Palace Cinema
Dear Future Films
Funders:
Creative Europe
LUSH films
HUGE THANKS TO INDIEGOGO CONTRIBUTORS and PICTURE SHOP