Language: Macedonian
Subtitle: Spanish
Director born in North Macedonia. Australian production. Dialogue in South Slavic language with roots in ancient ecclesiastical Slavic. Filmed in North Macedonia Award-winner in Bucheon, South Korea, and in Palm Springs. Acclaimed at Sundance. Cheered at Sitges. Performed, along with a hundred others, by Noomi Rapace, the Swedish actress raised in Iceland who has worked with Ridley Scott. Organic. Very organic. Atavistic, very atavistic. With traces of ethnographic documentary. Based on (very real) ancestral legends from the mountains bounding Serbia, Kosovo, Greece and Bulgaria. A witch. A pact. A girl (cursed, of course), who can take on not only the soul but the very body of her victims… Love. Death. Sex. Life.