In the woods

“During quarantine, I took refuge in a script phase, hoping to write something that I could realize in a ’post-Covid world’. That world did not materialize, however I still wanted to feel needed again after such long time. That is when the idea of a simple little story came to me. A kind of intimate drama. Few locations, few characters. Something that could be realized even in a short time. Thus, the script IM WALD (IN THE FOREST) emerged within a month. Writing it was easy for me as the father-daughter relationship is based on personal experiences, and ninety percent of the dialog is taken from my own life.

When I shoot a thriller, three things are important to me: it needs to be a story I would like to watch myself, the characters should go through their own conflicts, and it should be suspenseful. Suspense is subjective, I know, but I have a clear vision of things that give me goosebumps, especially deep in the forest.”