Greetings from Free Forests

Lep pozdrav iz svobodnih gozdov
Ian Soroka
Part of

Art of the Real 2019

April 18 - 28, 2019

Ian Soroka’s debut feature navigates caves, quarries, archaeological sites, and a fallout shelter transformed into a film archive to excavate the buried histories of the Partisan Liberation Front, who resisted the Fascist occupation of Yugoslavia during World War II.

DIRECTOR
Ian Soroka
YEAR
2018
COUNTRY
Slovenia / USA / Croatia
RUNTIME
98 minutes
LANGUAGE
Slovenian with English subtitles
ORIGINAL TITLE
Lep pozdrav iz svobodnih gozdov

Q&A with Ian Soroka

Underground resistance is made literal in Ian Soroka’s debut feature, which excavates the buried histories of the Partisan Liberation Front, who resisted the Fascist occupation of Yugoslavia during World War II. Through rich landscape cinematography, haunted archival images, and the vivid testimonials of local hunters, foresters, tour guides, and historians, the film traces the hidden historical currents beneath Southern Slovenia’s verdant terrain, exploring cave hideouts, quarries, archaeological sites, unmarked graves, and even a subterranean bunker that became a film archive. Winner of DocLisboa’s Lisbon City Grand Prix.

Greetings from Free Forests
Greetings from Free Forests
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