Forest: I See You Everywhere

Carmel International Competition

"The performances are exceptionally good all round"

SCREEN DAILY
  • Archive - Festival 37
  • Director: Bence Fliegauf
  • Hungary 2021
  • 114 minutes
  • Hungarian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

In 2003 Hungarian auteur Bence Fliegauf gained his reputation with his debut drama Forest. Fliegauf now delivers a stylistic companion piece to the earlier film. Employing the circular storytelling structure of Forest, the film is a vignette featuring seven quietly powerful tales about external forces that hover over his protagonists’ lives, including religion, death and grief.

Fliegauf frames these conflicts in tightly composed, claustrophobic shots, emphasizing the suffocating nature of absent, repressive forces. The film won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance at the 2021 Berlin Festival.

Filmography: Lily Lane (2016), Just the Wind (2012), Womb (2010), Dealer (2004), Forest (2003).

An online conversation with the director


  • Director Bence Fliegauf
  • Production Monika Mécs, Bence Fliegauf, Ernö Mesterhazy
  • Script Bence Fliegauf
  • Cinematography Mátyás Gyuricza, Ákos Nyoszoli
  • Editing Terence Gábor Gelencsér
  • Music Music: Bence
  • Festivals Berlin (Best Supporting Performance), Moscow, Hong Kong
  • Actors Juli Jakab, Lázló Cziffer, Lilla Kizlinger, Zsolt Végh
  • Source Films Boutique, Berlin