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MOTHER SUPERIOR (German: MATER SUPERIOR) // AT 2022 (71 min) // Horror-Fantasy-Thriller

>>>>> AWARDS: BEST FEATURE FILM & BEST DIRECTOR // Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2022 <<<<<

SYNOPSIS: 1975, Rosenkreuz Manor. Sigrun starts a new position with the eccentric Baroness Heidenreich. A shared longing binds the two women together: the old lady’s memory contains the secret to Sigrun's true identity; the nurse’s life force holds the key to the future for the Baroness. On the path to self-discovery, Sigrun is confronted with the sinister world of "völkisch" occultism, opening an unearthly abyss in which every moral and principle is tested.

Official Trailer // Music: July Skone + Stefan Voglsinger + Schmusechor

DIRECTOR STATEMENT:

My work often deals with faith and ideology. The power of imagination fascinates me. Insofar, the connection between fascism and occultism is a theme that I have been researching for years. The existence of NS-devoted women’s movements was something new to me. So I decided to look deeper into this paradox.

Meanwhile Covid was raging and camps with conflicting positions teamed up – esoteric naturopaths who suddenly agreed with Trump; left-wing liberals who fell for ultranationalist conspiracy theories. I was baffled and confused and reflected on how naively we put labels on values – good/evil, permitted/forbidden, rational/odd – and how many combination possibilities there are in fact.

I am neither trying to attack one position, nor to qualify the other. We simply ought to be aware of the danger that despicable worldviews may walk hand in hand with appealing ideals.

On one side, the folkish feminists were ahead of the times and acted in the interests of equality, on the other side they postulated the “Aryan supremacy“ from the perspective of the mother, the governess, the mystic. 


INTERVIEWS:

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+++ WORLD PREMIERE: Sep 29th 2022 at SLASH Film Festival +++

+++ INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE: Oct 15th 2022 at BROOKLYN Horror Film Festival +++

+++ WEST COAST PREMIERE: Oct 20th/23st 2022 at PORTLAND Film Festival +++

+++ EUROPEAN PREMIERE: Mar 10th 2023 at FRIGHTFEST Glasgow +++

+++ LATIN AMERICAN PREMIERE: Apr 16th/19th 2023 at FANTASPOA +++

+++ SWISS PREMIERE: Apr 29th 2023 at BRUGGGORE +++

+++ WASHINGTON STATE PREMIERE: May 20th/21st 2023 at SIFF Seattle +++

+++ POLISH PREMIERE: Aug 8th/11th 2023 at OCTOPUS Gdansk +++

+++ MEXICAN PREMIERE: Aug 18th/21st/27th 2023 at MACABRO Mexico City +++

+++ GERMAN PREMIERE: Sep 23rd 2023 at RANDFILMFEST Kassel +++

+++ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE: tba +++

+++ ENGLISH PREMIERE: tba +++

REVIEWS:

www.thehollywoodnews.com

www.starburstmagazine.com

www.signalhorizon.com

www.slayawaywithus.com

www.nightmarishconjurings.com

www.elementsofmadness.com

www.hollywoodreporter.com

www.variety.com

CREDITS:

Writer, Director & Production Designer: Marie Alice Wolfszahn

Producers: Judith Doppler & Kurt Mayer

Cinematography: Gabriel Krajanek

Editing: Georg Eggenfellner

Original Music: July Skone & Stefan Voglsinger

Sound Design: Jon Geirfinnsson

Costume Design: Cristina Brandner-Wolfszahn

Art Direction & Visual Effects: Manuel Biedermann

Colour Grading: Nico Wieseneder

Sound Mix: Lenja Gathmann

Cast: Isabella Händler, Inge Maux, Jochen Nickel, Tim Werths

Funded by: BMKOES, Stadt Wien Kultur, Niederösterreich Kultur


MOTHER SUPERIOR (Austria 2022) is produced by She Fox Film & Kurt Mayer Film

International Sales: Black Mandala

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