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Where the Forest Thickens

Where the Forest Thickens

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

2017 · 91 min · Drama

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.

Directed by Miguel Ángel Calvo Buttini · Written by Miguel Ángel Calvo Buttini

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