"I was told a true story involving a woman, some roosters in the forest and a group of hunters. I thought it felt like a fiction movie and I wanted to shoot the rooster scene in the forest, at night. Taking that sequence as the centre of the narration, Claros de bosque unfolds like a triptych from the centre out, exploring how one belongs and adapts to the rural environment, gender relations and the complicated coexistence with those around us and other species."
Production Country: Spain
Length: 90 min
Screenplay: Maddi Barber
Language: Basque, Spanish
Shooting format: 16mm.
Sinopsis: It's winter in a small valley in the Navarrese Pyrenees. Ana (39) lives alone and struggles to fit into a rural world to which she doesn't belong and that she finds hostile; three roosters struggle to survive overnight in a forest after being abandoned: Julen (35) will try to reverse the effects of climate change in his town as he questions the values he has grown up with. Three stories tied in by a chain of random events create a tale about possible ways of life in a traditional rural setting.
