The Forest Is Red

In the Avalanche forest, a boy and a girl give free rein to their dreams and imagination. Past and present intertwine, time fades.

A hunting party spending a night in a forest are suddenly whisked away into a magical reality.

Yorgοs Kalivas is a farmer who didn’t raise a family but “raised” trees. He has a deep affection for his patrimonial land and lives alone in the primeval forest of Skouries, in northern Greece, devotedly cultivating his chestnut trees and looking after his beehives. Yorgos’s destiny is tied to that of the forest, which is now in danger of being destroyed due to its subsoil, rich in mineral resources. The plan of a multinational company to construct a goldmine in the forest of Skouries, a few meters away from Yorgos’s land has prompted an unequal battle and has multiplied the extent of his loneliness and despair. Even though Yorgos never wanted war, war has arrived on his doorstep

A young woman hides that she sold her soul to escape reality in a dystopian world. When her boyfriend realizes this he has to make an impossible choice.

12 years ago, Hideto crippled his younger brother Masato in an accident in the woods. Hideto had avoided Masato ever since, but meets a physically healed but emotionally wounded Masato when he visits home one day. This Masato gets him to face the accident. Hideto then goes to meet the real Masato.

New animated film by Olga Besedina.

The lion calls himself king in the forest, and he treats all small animals with pride and cruelty. One morning, when the little animals were playing in the forest, suddenly a lion appeared...

Filmed in and around the dry-deciduous forests of Barjhai Ghat in Central India, Jaadui Jungle (Magical Forest) experiences the enchanting life in the forests of Central India through the eyes of children. The film has been made in collaboration with the children coming from tribal village communities settled around these forests. It portrays the intimate relationship that these children share with the forests while addressing the issue of rampant forest fires that have been threatening its very core.

The story of an autistic family who, with the help of all walks of life, made unremitting efforts and persistent struggles for their dreams.

An unusual portrait of writer Péter Nádas. His monologue is accompanied by the associative images of the landscape of his hometown, Gombosszeg.

Short animation by Keiko Fujimi

They know the woods like the back of their hands. Tirelessly and meticulously, a small group from Basel grazes the forest floor for mushrooms. Whether small, spicy or even poisonous, the more unusual the find, the better. To share their fascination with the rest of the world, they create a piece of nature within the boundaries of civilization.

From 1941 to 1944 tens of thousands of people, most of them Jewish, were shot in the killing pits in the Ponary Forest. The murders were documented in the diary of Kazimierz Sakowicz, a journalist from Vilnius who moved to the village of Ponary during the war.

In the heart of the Boreal forest lives a family renowned as much for their gourmet forest pickings as for their life of self-sufficiency.

... there's a phrase from a song that I really like that says: "Life is so beautiful that it looks real"

A man continues to throw rubbish into the forest, to the great annoyance of both the forest ranger and the forest animals, but when he refuses to stop, more drastic measures have to come into use – and this is where the forest ranger luckily gets the help of a dog, a cat and a mouse, who have had enough of the litter lout.

An indigenous family, one of the last forest people of old, copes with the unusual changes in their environment including the imposing lifestyle and customs of the more sociable tribes on the plains.