You Won't Be Alone

In a nineteenth-century mountain village, a girl is taken by an ancient shape-shifting witch and becomes one herself. She then moves through a series of lives, wearing the bodies of the people she kills, learning what being human is from the inside.

Goran Stolevski shot it in Serbia in Macedonian, largely in voiceover, in the drifting, sunlit, whispered register of a Terrence Malick film, which is not what the folk-horror premise suggests and is exactly what makes it work.

The witch, Old Maid Maria, is a frightening creation, scarred and mute and full of grief.

It is patient and strange and far more interested in tenderness than in scares, and the sequence in which the girl inhabits a man's body and discovers a different set of freedoms is the best thing in it.

Noomi Rapace appears as one of the bodies.