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Original name: Witches
English name: Witches
Year: 2024
Run time: 90 minutes
Language: English
Type (Colour/Black & White): Colour
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Elizabeth Sankey
Producer: Manon Ardisson, Chiara Ventura, Jeremy Warmsley
Screenplay: Elizabeth Sankey
Cinematographer: Chloë Thomson BSC
Editor: Elizabeth Sankey
Music Composer: Jeremy Warmsley
Production Designer: May Davies
Production Company: Mubi
World Sales: Mubi
Elizabeth Sankey is a filmmaker, writer and musician from London. In 2019 she directed and wrote her first feature documentary, Romantic Comedy, a personal exploration of the genre. The film was shown at over 35 international festivals including IFFR, SXSW, and Sheffield DocFest. In 2022 she wrote and directed Boobs, a TV programme about womens’ bodies for the broadcaster Channel 4. She has also written several documentary shorts for BBC iPlayer’s Inside Cinema strand. With her band Summer Camp, she has released four studio albums on Moshi Moshi Records, and in 2014 created the soundtrack to Charlie Shackleton’s feature debut Beyond Clueless.
In this personal and intimate film, writer-director Elizabeth Sankey uses her own story of being admitted to a psychiatric ward after the birth of her son to explore the unexpected yet compelling connections between perinatal mental health and the history and portrayal of witches in western society and pop culture. Using clips of cinema’s witches to illustrate her own experience and those of fellow sufferers, alongside interviews with medical professionals and academics, Sankey creates her own spell book for all to use.
