Shelley

Louise and Kasper want to become parents but Louise is unable to have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear Louise’s child, but things don’t turn out as they planned. A psychological horror film about tampering with human nature.

 

World premiered in the Berlinale Panorama Section in 2016.

Director: Ali Abbasi
Writers: Ali Abbasi and Maren Louise Käehne
Producer: Jacob Jarek
Executive producers: Ditte Milsted, Thor Sigurjonsson & Caroline Schlüter Bingestam
Starring: Cosmina Stratan, Ellen Dorrit Petersen & Peter Christoffersen