TOORBOS (13PS) Afrikaans with English subtitles

Directed: Rene van Rooyen (Mooirivier)
Starring: Elani Dekker, Stiaan Smith.

South Africa’s official entry to the Oscars for Best International Film.

Based on the novel by Dalene Matthee, Toorbos explores the uprooting of a young forest woman and her community during the time of the last forest inhabitants of South Africa’s Knysna forest of the 1930s.

This magical realist period drama, follows the free-spirited Karolien as she is coaxed into
marriage to a townsman, and is forced to experience what it will take to stay true to herself.