YOU WON’T BE ALONE Trailer From Director Goran Stolevski Reveals A New Take On Witchcraft

Set in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, YOU WON’T BE ALONE follows a young girl who is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. Curious about life as a human, the young witch accidentally kills a peasant in the nearby village and then takes her victim’s shape to live life in her skin. Her curiosity ignited, she continues to wield this horrific power in order to understand what it means to be human.

Focus Features will release YOU WON’T BE ALONE in theaters on April 1, 2022.

An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, the film stars  Noomi Rapace, Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert, Carloto Cotta, Félix Maritaud, Sara Klimoska.

From visionary director Goran Stolevski, watch the brand new trailer.

The film sits at 90% over on Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s what some of the critics have to say.

“The movie… gets deeper and more emotional as it goes, becoming a metaphor for restless empathy and non-binary points of view.” Full Review from Entertainment Weekly.

“A bloody — and bloody good — vampire tale that squeezes quite a few new twists out of fundamentally familiar material.” Full Review from Deadline.

“Drawing on his Macedonian roots, director Goran Stolevski delivers a truly unique feature debut: an erotically charged, at times brutish quest for identity, disguised as an elevated horror film.” Full Review from Variety.

Read an interview with the director HERE. “I tend to write about difficult women”, says Stolevski. “All of my previous works are character dramas. I did a ton of research about witches including folktales and historic documents. I tried to understand why they were telling the stories they were telling. As for witchcraft, we’ve always been told about them through a western lens, so I wanted to look outside of that. The voice of the characters came very easily after that. Once I had the inner voice and basic premise, it became this.”

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