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Mined Zone

HAGAZUSSA: A HEATHEN'S CURSE
HAGAZUSSA: DER HEXENFLUCH

• Director: Lukas Feigelfeld
• AUSTRIA, GERMANY / 2017 / DCP / Colour / 102’ / German; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Lukas Feigelfeld
• Director of Photography: Mariel Baqueiro
• Editing: Jörg Volkmar
• Music: MMMD
• Cast: Haymon Maria Buttinger, Aleksandra Cwen, Claudia Martini, Celina Peter, Tanja Petrovsky
• Producer: Simon Lubinski, Lukas Feigelfeld
• Production Co.: Retina Fabrik, Deutsche Film & Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) / German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB)
• World Sales: Raven Banner Entertainment

2019 German Film Critics Association Best Cinematography Best International Director
2018 Splat! (Poland) Best Film
2017 LUSCA Fantastic Film FF (Puerto Rico) Best International Director

Austrian director Feigelfeld's debut film Hagazussa presents a dark, poetic image of the witch. Hagazussa or hagzissa is an Old High German word for a witch and the origin of the English word 'hag.' The film takes place in a remote mountain village in the Alps in the 15th-century, and follows Albrun, a goat-herder outcast by her fellow townspeople, who finds herself in an uneasy friendship with a local villager. Feigelfeld makes use of the rich Alpine heritage of the witch and the perchta in German paganism.

This film is screened with the generous support of the Österreichisches Kulturforum Istanbul.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.