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Toorbos

2019NR2h7.1

"Toorbos" explores the uprooting of a young forest woman and her community during the time of the last forest inhabitants of South Africa's Knysna forest of the 1930s.

"Toorbos" explores the uprooting of a young forest woman and her community during the time of the last forest inhabitants of South Africa's Knysna forest of the 1930s. This magical realist period drama, follows the free-spirited Karoliena 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.

Info about Toorbos

Studio(s): Pressure Cooker Studios, The Film Factory

Originally Released: Aug 24, 2019

Production Country: South Africa

Genres:Drama