Toorbos

We explore the uprooting of a young forest woman during the time of the last forest inhabitants of South Africa’s Knysna forest of the 1930s. It tells the story of the intimate relationship of an initiated “forest woman” and the heart of the forest and how it becomes an obstacle in her experience of the man she loves. We follow her as she is coaxed into marriage to a townsman, experiences the realities of progress, discovers its oppression of society, the growing power of money on cultural homogenization and what it will take to stay true to herself. In Afrikaans language with English subtitles.

120 minutes.
No persons under 13 (Sex, Prejudice).
Drama, Romance, Afrikaans, South African.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.