HAGAZUSSA

DFFB graduate Lukas Feigelfeld returns to the Alps of his native Austria for his debut feature which will wrap production this summer. Set during the Middle Ages, HAGAZUSSA is the dark legend of the young woman Albrun and her struggle to preserve her own sanity, and tries to explore the fine line between ancient magic, faith and madness at a time when pagan beliefs in witches and nature spirits spread fear and terror in the minds of the rural population. Feigelfeld, who cites directors as diverse as Tarkovsky, Murnau and Lynch as inspiration, cast the Polish actress Aleksandra Cwen as Albrun and Claudia Martini, who has previously worked with Seidl and Haneke, as her tormenting mother.