SLEEPING BEAUTIES

> DIR. STUART SIMPSON

> 2023 | AUSTRALIA | 90 MINS | DRAMA/HORROR

> NSW PREMIERE after the film with Writer/ Director Stuart Simpson and lead actress/ Producer Intan

Kieflie

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Pregnant and a recent widow, Cahya is desperate to reconnect with her husband, David. With the help of a shaman, Cahya opens a doorway to the spirit world giving her marriage a ‘second chance’. But Cahya is also broke. Behind on her mortgage repayments, the bank threatens to repossess her home, of which David is boundforcing Cahya to accept a job as a maid for the remaining months of her pregnancy.

Located in the remote countryside, the mansion she finds herself working and living

LIGHT TILL DARK FANTASTIC FILM

FESTIVAL 2023 in, is inhabited by more than the odd siblings that own it. Cahya’s presence, with her recently gifted ‘sight’, awakens the tormented ghosts of the maids that came before her, victims of her demented employers. Now a prisoner herself, the spirits taunt Cahya, demanding she send them onto the next world, but that would mean sending David back with them. Something she refuses to do. Between the growingly hostile ghosts and her psychopathic employers, Cahya will have one hell of a fight to get back home.

CHATTANOOGA FILM

FESTIVAL 2023

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