Cloud Forest

What does a generation remember, whose parents have experienced a war? Which forms of speaking are possible between the children and their parents? What do they ask, and what do they think of the things they are addressing? In CLOUD FOREST, young women from the Netherlands take center stage as protagonists in the film. Their parents experienced the war in former Yugoslavia. The generation of children listens attentively about their own past. They follow interviews that they themselves have given about the question of talking about the war experiences of their parents. In doing so, it is as though they are in another time; in a type of fairytale they listen to themselves. A recollection of one’s own questions of remembering; a confrontation with a past which is part of one’s own biography, but which needs to be conveyed in order for it to become accessible.

  • Duration: 18 Min.
  • Countries: Netherlands
  • Languages: Dutch
  • Subtitles: English
  • Production year: 2019

  • Director: Eliane Esther Bots
  • Production: Manon Bovenkerk
  • Sound: Sergio González Cuervo
  • Nominated: A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle