Back to the Forest

24 minutes / 4K / 5.1 / 2025

On a silent forest path a woman in suddenly runs right in front of us, moments later, a six-year-old boy in a suit follows. At the bottom of a dark ravine, a young person carefully makes their way forward, and two friends are reunited after twenty years at their childhood holiday spot. As the women begin to clean The Egg an old caravan, they find objects that take them back to the youth. Through sisterhood and alcohol, a past marked by silence, shame, structural inequality, and patriarchal power is revealed. In a disquieting landscape, a portrait unfolds of two women carrying different truths.

Cast Guri Glans, Mona Solhaug Mathilde Glans and Jacob Shut Darya Shut and Gard Olav Frigstad  / Written and directed by Jannicke Laker / Photography Andrea Gatzke Sound manager Hanne Treidene / Sound design & music Erik Ljunggren consultants Per Teljer, Gard Olav Frigstad, Ingebjørg Torgersen / Location Gry Skjøttelvik Rødtangen Holmsbu / Supported by Norwegian Visual Artists’ Fund (BKV), The Audio and Visual Fund (FLB) and Viken Film Centre / Jannicke Låker © 2025

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