Synopsis: Toorbos explores the uprooting of a young forest woman during the time of the last forest inhabitants of South Africa’s Knysna forest of the 1930’s. It tells the story between the intimate relationship of an initiated “forest woman” Karoliena Kapp and the heart of the forest and how it becomes an obstacle in her experience of the townsman she falls in love with. We follow Karoliena as she is coaxed into marriage, experiences the realities of progress, the growing power of money, the oppresion of nature and what it will take to stay true to herself.

Cast: Elani Dekker, Stiaan Smith
Running time: 1hr20mins