Film Screening
Woodland

New Films from Germany

Sun, 12/15/2024
11:00 AM Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA 02446

Marian Malin (played by the brilliant Brigitte Hobmeier) has everything she could hope for: a successful career, a deep romantic love, and time to pursue her passions. Everything is perfect until she and her husband witness a deadly terrorist attack in the heart of Vienna. Plagued with post-traumatic flashbacks, Marian is unable to function in the city and flees to a Lower Austria country house that once belonged to her grandparents. There, in what seems like relative safety, she freely roams the woods and rekindles a connection to the simple place she once called home. But it is not without its own presences, including old friends Gerti and Franz, both of whom stayed in the village and for whom Marian’s return summons questions about life-defining events.
Drawing inspiration from Wald, a 2015 novel by the bestselling author Doris Knecht, as well as her own traumatic experience of witnessing the 2020 Vienna attack, writer-director Elisabeth Scharang retreats to the woods in this atmospheric and soul-stirring film.

Directed by Elisabeth Scharang
Austria 2023
DCP, 95 min.
German with English subtitles