THE OTHER LAMB

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Raffey Cassidy (Selah), Michiel Huisman (Shephard), Denise Gough, Ailbhe Cowley (Tamar), Eve Connelly (Adriel), Isabelle Connelly (Eloise)

The Flock, a group of about 20 women live in the Pacific Northwest. The sun to their planet is the Shephard. The women worship him with their bodies as well as their faith, as testified by the number of exclusively female children they’ve brought into the tribe.

Life with Shephard is the only life Selah has ever known. Their self-sufficient community possesses no modern technology, and is hidden away in the woods, far from modern civilization. Shephard is the group’s guardian, teacher and lover. Each of the many female members of the group is either his wife or daughter. Selah is pure in faith, but also dangerously headstrong. She was raised as a daughter of Shephard, but it is only a matter of time before she stands to become a wife.

As an encounter with the authorities forces women and Selah to build a new Eden further inland, Selah increasingly doubts her faith, and has strange, bloody visions. The onset of puberty brings with it harsh new rituals, and her first shocking glimpse of what happens to Shephard’s women as they age.

MAŁGORZATA SZUMOWSKA
Director and screenwriter. Born in 1973in Cracow. Studied a History of Art at Jagiellonian University in Cracow for two years. Graduated from the Directing Department of the National Film School in Łódź (1998). Recipient of many prestigious awards. She won the Silver Bear for Best Director for “Body” and for “Mug” (Berlin International Film Festival 2015 & 2018). In 2015 she was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit – the highest civilian award in Poland. Member of European Film Academy.

FILMOGRAPHY
2019    The Other Lamb
2018    Mug (Twarz)
2015    Body (Ciało)
2013    In the Name of… (W imię…)
2012    Elles (Sponsoring)
2008    33 Scenes from Life (33 sceny z życia)
2006    A Nothing to Be Scared (Czego się bać?) – documentary
2005    Stranger (Ono)
2005    My Dad Maciek (Mój tata Maciek) – documentary
2005    Father [in:] Solidarity, Solidarity (Ojciec [w:] Solidarność, Solidarność)
2004    Crossroad (Skrzyżowanie)
2001    Document (Dokument) – documentary
2000    Happy Man (Szczęśliwy człowiek)
1997    Silence (Cisza) – documentary