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Nightsiren
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Nightsiren (, ) is a 2022 Slovak-Czech feminist psychological horror drama by director Tereza Nvotová. The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, where it won the Golden Leopard – Filmmakers of the Present award.
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5.5A mysterious woman returns to her mountain village home to confront her painful past. As she tries to uncover the long-buried truth, the local villagers accuse her of witchcraft and murder.
Cast
- Natalia Germani as Šarlota
- Eva Mores as Mira
- Juliána Brutovská as Helena
- Iva Bittová as Otyla
- Jana Oľhová as Anna
- Marek Geišberg as Tomáš
Themes
- witch
- rape
- ritual
- legend
- village
- group sex
- feminism
- sexual violence
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Nightsiren (, ) is a 2022 Slovak-Czech feminist psychological horror drama by director Tereza Nvotová. The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, where it won the Golden Leopard – Filmmakers of the Present award.
== Plot == While running away from her abusive mother, a girl named Šarlota accidentally pushes her sister Tamara off a cliff. Years later, Šarlota, now a young adult, returns to the village, summoned by a letter from the mayor, requesting her to claim her mother's inheritance. Because she ran away as a child and was never found, she is met with distrust and superstition: She and Tamara had been claimed to have been taken by an accused witch, Otyla, a neighbour of their childhood home.
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