Backwoods

Backwoods

How to save your family when the end of the world is approaching?

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Release Date

10/15/2026

Runtime

88 mins

Overview

Marta decides to take her daughters, Agáta and Mína, leave her toxic husband, and start over. She finds refuge in the house of her father, an eccentric loner who has spent his entire life preparing for the end of the world. Their time together reveals long-suppressed family conflicts, many of them triggered by the husband. When Milan accuses Marta of kidnapping the children, the father drives him away, strengthening the bond with his daughter.

Status

Released

Original Language

Czech

Budget

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Revenue

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A darkly strange meditation on how families construct and demolish their own mythologies in the face of existential dread. Expect grotesque images, philosophical questions, and wild pigs as the mundane world cracks open.

Mood

MelancholicUnsettlingAbsurdContemplative

Themes

FamilyMemoryMortalityComing apart

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Stylized genrePainterly

Structure

Linear

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