NIGHTSIREN

Sarlotta (Natalia Germani) returns to an isolated Slovakian village after leaving it years ago following a traumatic childhood incident. Her growing friendship with an enigmatic herbalist provokes mistrust and persecution from the locals, many of whom believe she is a witch, a charge previously brought against her mother. Truth or misogyny in an enclosed society?

Set in lush, mist-shrouded woodland teeming with snakes and wolves and with some vivid psychedelic fantasy sequences, this dark allegorical chiller recalls the powerful imagery of films such as Neil Jordan’s The Company Of Wolves and Robert Eggers The Witch.