The Pocket Film of Superstitions

Jul 22, 2023

1h 36m

★ 8.0

Overview

The film is described as a weird and wonderful merging of shades of folk horror, the supernatural with dadaist humour and a quaint British eccentricities that are long gone in the cinema of today.

Genres

Fantasy

Comedy

Horror

Documentary

Production Companies

Carnie Film Production

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Cast

The High Priestess

Caroline Munro

The Hand Maiden

Lynn Lowry

The Narrator

Shend

Dead Woman / Miner's Wife

Leila Alexandra

Changeling Mother

Imogen Archer

Witches' Coven

Hannah Batra

The Devil

Gary Baxter

Mrs. Splendid

Jamie-Lee Beacher

Mr. Peck

Rupert Bell

Kitchen Maid

Katie Bennett

Cemetery Ghost

Molly Brown

Faerie

Katrina Lee-Buxton

A new teacher, Uma (Anasuya Subasinghe), arrives at a school with her first appointment in a remote village near Dambulla in Sri Lanka. The school has few students, with only the principal (Lucian Bulathsinghala) and Uma as the teacher. With the help of Uma the pupils gradually start to dream of bigger things than they ever imagined. One day Upuli, a blind girl, shares her unseen dream with school friends Sukiri and Ukkun. It gradually becomes the dream throughout the village. The children and Uma encounter perils in their venture to realise this dream. The children of the school start to focus on something they have never seen before. This target gives rise to a small revolution.

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