Marian Malin witnesses a terrorist attack. On the outside she remains unharmed, but the emotional wound tears open time and time again. She no longer feels safe in her familiar everyday life in the city and retreats to an old house by the forest, to the world of her childhood. There, in the solitude of nature, she regains her footing – until she comes face to face with Gerti.
Screenplay inspired by the novel Wald by Doris Knecht.
Woodland
Elisabeth Scharang
Born in 1969 in Bruck an der Mur/Austria. Worked as a journalist and radio presenter for ORF. Active as a screenwriter and director and as a mentor for female directors and writers for the collective “dieRegisseur*innen”.
2000 NORMALE ZEITEN, Dokumentarfilm
2006 TINTENFISCHALARM, Dokumentarfilm
2007 MEINE LIEBE REPUBLIK, Dokumentarfilm
2010 VIELLEICHT IN EINEM ANDEREN LEBEN, Spielfilm
2014 KICK OUT YOUR BOSS, Dokumentarfilm
2015 JACK, Spielfilm
2022 WALD, Spielfilm HOF 2023
“Both female characters, in the film as well as in the novel, are united by one thought: What happens when my system collapses? This is a question that preoccupies all self-employed and, even more intensely, women who are also single mothers.
I wanted to trace this fear and, on the other hand, to see which resources – that we often forget in everyday urban life because we don’t need them – we have at our disposal. Another aspect is the unromantic facet of escaping, of this forced exit from familiar urban everyday life: in the novel, it’s the financial crisis, in the film, it’s not being able to cope in the city after the trauma of the terrorist attack. In the course of the script writing process, I moved away from the original material. But I still put the material in the drawer for a few months because I couldn’t find the key to my main character. She remained a stranger to me. Then, shortly after the terrorist attack in Vienna, I rewrote the screenplay within just a few weeks, and everything fell into place. [...]”
Elisabeth Scharang
Apr 12, 2024
On Wednesday, 4 June 2024, the winners will be announced at Vienna City Hall.
Apr 6, 2024
Festival of Austrian film from 4 April to 9 April 2024
Oct 28, 2023
Prizes for Best Costume Design and Best Setting