Fabiana Fragale

Fall 2018: The Hambach Forest becomes a chaotic scene of the climate conflict. In the midst of this chaos, film student Steffen Meyn has a fatal accident. Based on footage he collected over two years, we follow Steffen’s path up the trees and into an activism full of contradictions.

When the filmmaker obtains a mobilization video from a mysterious witches' coven, she embarks on a quest driven by her own longing for feminist solidarity. The trail of witches leads her from tourist shops to churches, from TikTok to the seaside. The film "The Witches' Syndicate" thus becomes a mystical-magical journey and, at the same time, a personal, sometimes comically absurd, search for meaning. In doing so, she creates an image of the witch as a place of longing and an invitation to contemplate political injustices and to combat them with unconventional and playful means.

Fall 2018: The Hambach Forest becomes a chaotic scene of the climate conflict. In the midst of this chaos, film student Steffen Meyn has a fatal accident. Based on footage he collected over two years, we follow Steffen’s path up the trees and into an activism full of contradictions.

Fall 2018: The Hambach Forest becomes a chaotic scene of the climate conflict. In the midst of this chaos, film student Steffen Meyn has a fatal accident. Based on footage he collected over two years, we follow Steffen’s path up the trees and into an activism full of contradictions.

When the filmmaker obtains a mobilization video from a mysterious witches' coven, she embarks on a quest driven by her own longing for feminist solidarity. The trail of witches leads her from tourist shops to churches, from TikTok to the seaside. The film "The Witches' Syndicate" thus becomes a mystical-magical journey and, at the same time, a personal, sometimes comically absurd, search for meaning. In doing so, she creates an image of the witch as a place of longing and an invitation to contemplate political injustices and to combat them with unconventional and playful means.