This year's International Forest Festival invites us to gather around the urgent, fragile, and transformative power of performance.
 
This edition of the festival gathers voices that speak into the fractures and dreams of our times — including Tamara Cubas (Offerings for a Monster), Rebecca Chaillon (White Washing), Mamela Nyamza (Hatched Ensemble), Ali Chahrour (Told by My Mother), El Conde de Torrefiel (I have no name), Jaha Koo (History of Korean Western Theatre) and Tim Etchells (L'Addition).

The world feels like a melodrama of absurdities. Somewhere between horror and wonder, between surrender and resistance, we are swimming — through crises, through the darkness of uncertainty. And yet, in that very in-between, a ground for artistic vision emerges: a place to gather, to exchange, to disagree, to listen.

Following the spirit of Hope in the Dark (Rebecca Solnit), we embrace the unseen, the unfinished, the yet-to-come — trusting that even amid fracture, seeds of connection and imagination can be sown.
 
 In a world vibrating between collapse and reinvention, we turn to artists whose works reach into the deep textures of our time — summoning memory, myth, laughter, grief, and radical tenderness.

The festival brings together voices and visions from different continents and artistic languages, proposing performances as shared landscapes of imagination.
 
We believe deeply in the urgency of language — in its ability to hold beauty, anger, memory, and transformation. Especially in moments of crisis, we long for language that does not explain the world away but dares to make it more visible, more permeable, more alive. We dream of a language that does not smooth over complexity but lets contradictions breathe; a language that cracks open spaces for listening, trembling, and beginning again.