Witches – Watch a clip from Elizabeth Sankey’s new documentary

MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service and production company, has announced the global streaming release date for Elizabeth Sankey’s (Boobs, Romantic Comedy) documentary film, Witches. Witches had its World Premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival and will have its UK Premiere at the 2024 London Film Festival, will stream exclusively on MUBI globally from 22 November 2024.

The film is a profound exploration of the unexpected yet compelling connections between postpartum mental health and the history and portrayal of witches in western society and popular culture.

Following on from her critically acclaimed feature Romantic Comedy, released by MUBI in 2019, Sankey now uses her trademark video essay style to turn the camera inward, focusing on her own experiences with postpartum anxiety and depression.

Using her own experience of being admitted to a psychiatric ward after the birth of her son, Sankey intertwines personal narrative with historical and cinematic footage. The film features interviews with medical professionals, historians, and fellow sufferers, offering a multifaceted perspective on how women with mental health issues have been stigmatized and misunderstood over time, while creating her own coven of women to reclaim their stories.

Witches is produced by Ardisson, Chiara Ventura and Jeremy Warmsley – Executive produced by Efe Cakarel, Jason Ropell, Bobby Allen, Thomas C. Hoegh. Cinematography is by Chloë Thomson and the score is composed by Jeremy Warmsley.

Elizabeth Sankey has said, “I am thrilled to have WITCHES streaming globally on Mubi, and am so glad the film will reach many people who don’t know about these illnesses, and also find the women who are in need of their own coven to survive.”