Witches
World Premiere

Witches

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Feature | UK | 90 MINUTES | English
Women, Biography

Following up her acclaimed 2019 documentary Romantic Comedy, filmmaker Elizabeth Sankey turns her attention to another genre of cinematic depiction of particular interest to women: the witch. How have witches been characterized and shown across the history of film, television, and culture? How has this representation changed and evolved? And most importantly, what is going on just beneath the surface?

Ushering her own long-standing obsession with movies to the fore, Sankey draws on a wealth of footage spanning the entirety of film history- with clips as far ranging as The Wizard of Oz, Girl, Interrupted and Rosemary’s Baby- to make that point that our shared cultural representation of witches says a lot more about how we view women, motherhood, and mental health. Sankey places her own personal experiences alongside interviews with academics and other women with shared experiences within a larger historical context that relates back to the witch hunts of past centuries and up to the way contemporary cultural norms continue to fail women. Witches functions simultaneously as stirring personal testimony, critical ode to cinephilia, and a vital feminist history lesson.––Cara Cusumano


Cast & Credits
Directed by
Elizabeth Sankey
Director
Elizabeth Sankey
Producer
Manon Ardisson, Chiara Ventura, Jeremy Warmsley
Screenwriter
Elizabeth Sankey
Cinematographer
Chloë Thomson
Editor
Elizabeth Sankey
Composer
Jeremy Warmsley
Executive Producer
Efe Cakarel, Jason Ropell, Bobby Allen, Thomas C. Hoegh
Cast
(Documentary contributors include: Sophia Di Martino, Catherine Cho, David Emson, Dr. Trudi Seneviratne, Professor Marion Gibson, Shema Tariq)

Contacts
US Sales Contact
Meghan Wurtz
MUBI
New York, NY 10003
mwurtz@mubi.com
International Sales Contact
Meghan Wurtz
MUBI
New York, NY 10003
mwurtz@mubi.com
Print Source
Jeremy Warmsley
Montgomery Avenue
London, E11 3LA
Phone: 44 00 796 756 8142
jeremywarmsley@googlemail.com
Press Contact
Michael Lieberman
MUBI
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 607 427 7740
mlieberman@mubi.com
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