Ora sono diventata foresta

This autobiographical film, standing on the borderline between reality and fiction, explores diverse forms of faith and spirituality. Director Irene Dorigotti guides the film dressed in a Boy Scout uniform – a reminder of her family heritage – as she travels through her native Italy and remote areas, meeting spiritual leaders and ordinary people. For her, these encounters mark decisive moments in her spiritual journey and in her discovery of the role that religion can play in the life of contemporary man. Poetic images of landscapes, dreamlike passages and fragments of personal history, together with poignant music, create a powerful statement about the nature of humanity.

Bea, Enrico, Irene are crossing a forest that, step by step, turns into a tropical eco-system. In the course of this dreamlike exploration, the whole forest begins to play. At this point they understand that they are living a “grand rve Change the music, the three friends re - emerge-perhaps-from the dream, finally arrive at a beach. Will this be the place where liberation from all their anxieties will take place?