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Once Upon a Time in a Forest 2024

[CPH:DOX '24] Centered on a group of young activists organizing against the logging industry in Finland, the most poetic moments are those in which they walk through the forest, bathe in the lake or sit in silence, or with an ethereal and beautiful music by Sanna Salmenkallio, establishing that contact that seems forgotten. But they are moments of calm before the storm, when Ida and Minka participate in protest actions that are dispersed with surprising kindness by the Finnish police, but also conveying a disheartening feeling that they are not taken too seriously. The film is a bucolic representation of the natural beauty of the forests, but it also reflects a generational gap in which young people are the only ones who really seem to think about the future.

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