Beyond the Forest invites us to a very strange village; Tasavlu, a small Turkish village. There is nothing special happening here. Nomads from Central Asia came here long ago, and now they have lost their identities. But, old Hayri still remembers. He enjoys his memory playing the wooden flute and the uctelli which looks like the three-stringed lute. The sound is the only window open to the memories. That′s why there is sound everywhere in this film. The sound follows old Hayri visiting his boyhood friend, returning with him in order to feast in the old village. The sound is the path to lead them to the forgotten past and friends of these old men as well. They meet to rekindle the spirit of a vanished pastoral world with the sounds. The film ends with the small festival the old men held at night: Nothing more. Even though the film doesn′t try to trace particular wounds, it reveals the sorrow of the lost time. Images follow the time, and draw the inner state of mind searching for the memories from the present. Beyond the Forest shows how film can record time. (Kim Sung-Tae)