There is powerful dark magic at the heart of Australian-Macedonian filmmaker Goran Stolevski’s spellbinding movie You Won’t Be Alone, which enjoyed its Australian premiere at the current Sydney Film Festival (SFF) after debuting at Sundance. Shot in and around a remote village clustered near the peak of a Serbian mountain, doubling for the land where he was born, Stolevski’s fantastical film depicts the terrible consequences of a deal made not with the devil, but a witch.
‘I was unemployed for many, many years and I got into a pattern of writing two films that I felt like were somehow makeable, and then the third one would be like, just go crazy,’ he says. ‘Don’t even think about it getting made. And this was the sixth film.’
