Corporate team building goes full Lord of the Flies with actual casualties.
The new Dutch owner of a Croatian marketing agency is organizing an action-style team building for his employees over weekend. After rafting which ends up with an incident, the employees divide in two paintball groups. While making their way through the forest full of surprises – a local family who is plotting against their lives, suspicious instructors, a random pair of hikers and bizarre accidents. As the day comes to its end, it is clear that, after this game, nothing will ever be the same.
Acting
Vili Matula's deliciously punchable boss energy.
Direction
Vitez balances genuine tension with absurdism.
Director
Ivan-Goran Vitez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Dutch-Croatian dynamic satirizes post-Yugoslav resentment toward Western corporate 'saviors' buying cheap. The title 'Forest Creatures' translates from Croatian 'Šumaři'—roughly 'forest people,' with classist undertones.
Director Vitez shot the paintball sequences with actual Croatian championship players as stunt doubles, explaining why the tactical movement looks unsettlingly competent for a comedy.
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