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The Forest for the Trees
Dir.: Maren Ade | 81 minutes

The Forest for the Trees

Germany 2004 | 81 minutes | German | Hebrew, English subtitles

Melanie, a young idealistic teacher, leaves her provincial town and boyfriend for a school in the city of Karlsruhe. Alone in a strange city, Melanie gradually falls apart. Maren Ade chooses a brilliant actress who fully expresses the suffocation of loneliness and the protagonist’s emotional decline. 

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