Netherlands, 2025, 26 min., Dutch with English and Bulgarian subtitles, dir. Marit Vreeswijk, Gabriela Forfota
A farewell to a tree is not too different from a good-bye to a human. The healthy elm needs to make space for a bridge in an urban park in Amsterdam. As the space transforms, different scientists reflect on their work with trees and green life: a space ecologist, an urban tree consultant and a dendrochronologist show their field of work in a poetic quest about what trees really are to us.
Screenwriter: Marit Vreeswijk, Gabriela Forfota
DOP: Marit Vreeswijk, Anne van Riel
Music: Erick Polet
Production: Filmvrouw, Lorelei Pictures
Director’s Biography:
Marit Vreeswijk works as a freelance filmmaker in the Netherlands, has a master’s degree in Arts, Culture and Media. She has specialized in making short human interest documentaries.
Gabriela Forfotӑ studied film at Digital Filmmaking at SAE Amsterdam (2009) and graduated from the Master in Documentary Film at Babeṣ-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (2019). She has directed and co-directed short documentaries that explore identity and its multiple layers.