Film director: Maria Bulavinskaya https://www.instagram.com/maryiabulavinskaya Illustrations and animation: https://www.instagram.com/street_wind_ Sound design: https://www.instagram.com/ansia.nova The documentary “The Forest” shows several real stories from the 1930s about Stalin's repressions. One of them is about a Gomel (Belarus) official who survived a shooting in the sadly famous Navabelitski (Chonkauski) forest near Gomel. According to archaeological excavations in 1995, Soviet citizens were shot by NKVD officers in this forest. In 2021, the 52nd search battalion of the Ministry of Defense began new excavations in this forest. According to the official version, the remains of Nazi victims of World War II are in the forest. Prosecutor General of Belarus A. Shved said that the remains of several tens of thousands to a hundred thousand civilians could be in the forest. The film “Forest” is an investigation of its authors with evidence of the crimes of the Soviet regime. The documentary utilizes archival video and audio in which witnesses recount the events of the 1930s.