VIRUSFILM

In The Voice of the Forest, we hear everything we didn’t want to hear.

The forest is cultivated with a saw. At least that’s still what forestry schools teach. But what does a healthy forest actually need? Foresters and hunters see the forest as an agricultural commodity and nature as something that must be constantly regulated and managed. On the other side stand conservationists – advocates of non-intervention, who believe the forest can take care of itself without us. Where does private ownership stand in this conflict? And is a human’s right to use natural resources in their surroundings superior to the bear’s right to do the same? Slovak forests have become a battleground – but also a proxy issue of a social conflict that runs much deeper than it first appears.
• Voice of the Forest
• Hlas lesa [SK]
• SK, CZ 2025, 74 min.
• Concept, direction: Zuzana Piussi
• Camera: Miro Remo, Zuzana Piussi and others
• Producers: Zuzana Piussi, Vít Janeček
• Featuring: Ján Nôžka, Pavol Zacharovský, Juraj Koco, Milan Ovseník, Erik Baláž, Ľuboslav Mika, Anton Gertli, Andrej Kunca, Igor Viszlai, Imrich Šuba, Marián Jasík, Ferko Janík, Radovan Haluza, Rudolf Huliak, Michal Kalaš, Filip Kuffa, hunters Andrej and Martina, Tibor Pataky et al.
• Production: VIRUSfilm,D1film, STVR
• Supported by: Audiovisual Fund
• Distribucia: FILMTOPIA