Stories from the Chestnut Woods

In a decaying forest on the Yugoslav-Italian border in the years after World War II, an old carpenter and a young chestnut seller share imaginative memories of the past as they weigh fateful decisions for the future. Cultivating subtle beauty in each 35mm frame, accompanied by an ethereal theremin score, Bozic captures the poetic impermanence of their joy, sorrow, and loss in this stunning debut, a touching homage to a forgotten land and its displaced people.