Roqia

North American premiere of Algerian filmmaker Yanis Koussim's feature debut, a horror fable that reshapes the exorcism genre to reckon with Algeria's "Black Decade" civil war. The film moves between narratives set in different time periods, following a Raqi tending to the possessed while battling dementia, and a father Ahmed returning home unrecognizable after a car crash. Koussim demonstrates electrifying, physical filmmaking with creeping terror and originality.