Bosnian-Dutch filmmaker Ena Sendijarević first came onto the scene when she followed her Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight preemed short Import (2016) to the ACID premiere of her feature debut Take Me Somewhere Nice (2019) which would later be honored with the Special Jury Prize at IFFR. Her sophomore outing Sweet Dreams (2023), premiered in Locarno’s main competition, where it won the Pardo for Best Performance. Known for her distinctive mix of surrealism, dark humour and social observation, Sendijarević often explores power, identity, migration and the uneasy dynamics of belonging. Here is everything we know so far for…Ena Sendijarević‘s The Possessed.
Sendijarević’s third feature was presented at Les Arcs Film Festival back in 2023 followed by 2024’s IFFR CineMart and was greenlit shortly after. Pre-production took place in 2026 with the first major casting announcement in April followed by production this past September in Spain within Barcelona, Teruel and Bardenas Reales.
Written by Sendijarević, this catapults us into 17th-century Europe where two women fleeing widespread witch hunts create a refuge on the edge of the world, until a man becomes their unwilling captive and sparks ...