Nietzchka Keene

Margit and her sister, Katla, flee their homeland in Iceland after their mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. Needing a place to stay, Katla casts a spell over a young farmer named Jóhann which makes him fall in love with her, ensuring the wellbeing of herself and Margit. Jóhann's son sees through Katla's plan and pleads for his father to make her go away. To help him in his struggle, Margit's mother appears to Margit in visions and provides a magic amulet of protection for the boy. (imdb)

Nietzchka Keene evokes a woman's fractured inner world in this enigmatic portrait composed in water, mirrors, and blood. (Criterion Channel)

A stop-motion menagerie of birds illuminate a nun's spiritual ecstasy and terror in this experimental animated work set to the music of Christian mystic Hildegard von Bingen. (letterboxd)

An isolated woman is asked to raise her sister's daughter.