Best First Film winner at the Hungarian Film Awards, Forest hovers provocatively between off-beat humor and sinister drama. Bookended by images of a crowd outside a Budapest shopping mall, Forest glimpses into a series of lives in seven vignettes, with several unnerving turns along the way: a stranger invades a woman’s apartment, insisting she take his dog; a father expresses concern for his maturing daughter that degenerates into an unhealthy obsession/repulsion with her body; a young woman is haunted by the memory of her grandmother. Fliegauf's probing camera zeroes in on faces, hands, telling gestures, and uncomfortable moments, creating an unexpectedly spooky, claustrophobic mood from the seemingly mundane.