DARK WOODS [VILLMARK]

THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER AT 5:10PM UGC SHAFTESBURY AVE SCREEN 1

Country Norway Running Time 80 mins Format 35mm Dir P¬l Çie Prod Jan Aksel Angeltvedt S'play P¬l Çie, Christopher Grondahl DoP Sjur Aarthun, Tore Vollan Cast Kristoffer Joner, Bjorn Floberg, Eva Rose, Marko Kanic, Sampda Sharm Print Source Nonstop FIlms E info@nonstopentertainment.com

Five people from a small television company go on a bonding weekend to the Norwegian wilderness. Only this isn't any normal team-building expedition. As well as collecting firewood, shooting rabbits, building shacks - all the usual activities supposed to strengthen the group spirit - they are soon to find out that they are not the only creatures in this forest. When three of them discover a woman's body in a pond by an abandoned campsite and decide to leave it there and do nothing, little do they know that they have set off a dangerous chain of events. The group starts to fall apart as paranoia, mistrust and accusations unfold, not helped at all by Gunnar, the compulsively authoritarian leader played by Bjorn Floberg, who likes to chop wood in the middle of the night and tie people to trees. When the playful Per (Marco Kanic) mysteriously disappears, his best friend Lasse (Kristoffer Joner) realises something is definitely amiss and sets out into the dark woods. However, as outside dangers move closer and closer, how will they survive the night? The bleak yet eerily beautiful Norwegian forests make the perfect backdrop to this suspense- ridden thriller where evil is lurking in the dark. ALK

P¬l Çie has worked as a director, producer, and screenwriter for over ten years. He has previously made the short films The Well (1996), Zorro (1999), Stop (2000) and Tap Dance (2000). Dark Woods is his feature film debut.