drama, mystery – premiere 12.8.2022 at Locarno Film Festival
A young woman returns to her native mountain village, searching for answers about her troubled childhood, but as she tries to uncover the truth, ancient legends begin to invade modern reality, leading the villagers to accuse her of witchcraft and murder.
Nightsiren addresses the resurgence of ancient beliefs in modern day Slovakia and how issues , such as misogyny, xenophobia, and mass hysteria still prevail in our modern world and tells the story of what it takes to be free when we choose to step off the beaten path.
DIRECTOR Tereza Nvotova
WRITER Barbora Namerova, Tereza Nvotova
PRODUCERS BFILM, moloko film, RTVS
DOP Federico Cesca
MUSIC Pjoni, Rob
CAST Natalia Germani, Eva Mores, Iva Bittova, Juliana Brutovska, Jana Olhova, Noel Czucor, Marek Geisberg, Zuzana Konecna
Eurimages Development Award 2018
Supported by Eurimages
Supported by Slovak Audiovisual Fund AVF and Czech Film Fund CFF.
Nightsiren was developed at Scripteast lab.
It is presented at co-production forums MIA in Rome and AGORA CROSSROADS in Thessaloniki at TIFF59 and Frontières Finance & Packaging Forum.
The Nightsiren won Eurimages Development Award at Rome’s MIA: Interview
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