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The Forest(Movie, 2016)

Original title: "ป่า" (Thai/TH)
1h 49min | Genres: Drama, Horror, Fantasy
The ForestRating: 3.1/5 (with 1010 votes)
The Forest (Thai title: ป่า) is a 2016 Thai supernatural horror film written, directed, shot and edited by English flimmaker Paul Spurrier, with the help of his wife Jiriya, and starring two first-time child actors and Asanee Suwan. The screenplay in its original language form was translated by one Preeyaporn Chareonbutra, who had done likewise with Spurrier's previous Thai film production, P. The story follows a former monk who has joined the teaching profession and is recently assigned by the education ministry to work at a grade school in a small village of an Isaan rural area, and it also follows one of his students, a bullied girl who encounters a mysterious wild boy in the woods neighboring the village, but this boy is merely wild in the sense of how he lives alone in the forest, subsisting bereft of clothing, tools and shelter, as he otherwise is ever articulate and well kept, like the human embodiment of an idea. The schoolgirl is unable to vocally communicate with anybody except for the forest boy. Her inability to speak has been the subject of ridicule and abuse by her classmates. ()
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About The Forest

A new teacher arrives at a small village in rural Thailand. He has just left the monkhood and has taken a job at the local school in a quest to discover life outside the monastery. He finds that one of his pupils is a mute girl who is being bullied by the other children in the class. Both the teacher and the girl must face the challenges and cruelties of the real world. The girl retreats into a fantasy world, finding solace in the forest with a strange wild boy. The teacher struggles to bring her back, whilst at the same time himself questioning the world of reality. The worlds of fantasy and reality clash with tragic consequences.

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Additional Information

Production country: Thailand
Plays in: Thailand
Original language: Thai (TH)
Spoken languages: Thai (TH)
Translated into 9 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Italian (IT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Russian (RU), Thai (TH), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 03/09/2016
Director: Paul Spurrier
Screenwriter: Paul Spurrier
Film Editor: Paul Spurrier
Director of Photography: Paul Spurrier
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"La Foresta"
"ป่า"

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