Sorcery

A dark and enigmatic fantasy-tinged revenge drama based on real events, about colonialism and witchcraft on the Chilean island of Chiloé in 1880.

Thirteen-year-old Rosa belongs to the indigenous population but has received a Christian upbringing and serves a German settler family. But when her father is brutally murdered by her master, she turns to her own people and the shadowy organization that wields power through witchcraft and black magic. Under the watchful eye of leader Mateo, Rosa learns what she needs to put her revenge plan into action. Christopher Murray (Manuel de Ribera, GFF 2011; The Blind Christ, GFF 2017) is back with a captivating cross between supernatural fable and brutal historical drama, spun around the antagonism between German colonizers and the Huilliche people, and the trial of the sorcery practitioners of Chiloé which the Chilean authorities enforced in 1880.

• Johan Blomqvist