TIFF Title ‘Woodland,’ About the Aftermath of a Terrorist Attack, Picked Up by Picture Tree Intl. as Trailer Debuts (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor Berlin-based sales agency Picture Tree Intl. has picked up “Woodland” (“Wald”), written and directed by Elisabeth Scharang, which has its world premiere in the Centrepiece section at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The film’s trailer has also just been launched. Picture Tree Intl. also handled world sales on Scharang’s sophomore feature film, “Jack,” which also played at Toronto. “Woodland” is inspired by the novel “Wald” from bestselling author Doris Knecht, and the personal experience of Scharang, who witnessed the attack of a terrorist shooter in Vienna in 2020 in which four people were killed and 23 others were injured.
The film marks Scharang’s second collaboration with DOP Jörg Widmer, who is a frequent collaborator with Terrence Malick. In “Woodland,” Marian Malin (Brigitte Hobmeier) has everything she could wish for — a passion, a job and love — until she and her husband (Bogdan Dumitrache) fall victim to a terrorist attack in Vienna.
The external injuries heal quickly, but Marian’s trauma is so deep that she flees to the abandoned countryside house of her grandparents, a few miles from the village where she grew up.
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