THE BRAID
(FLÄTAN)

BY ANGELIKA ABRAMOVITCH

PRODUCTION INFO
Title: The Braid (Flätan)
Format: Feature
Language: Swedish
Release: 2024
 
CREW
Director: Angelika Abramovitch
Screenwriters: Joen Heed Winblad, Jessika Jankert
Producers: Annika Hellström, Erika Malmgren / Cinenic Film
Co-producer: Gudny Hummelvoll / Hummelfilm
 

 

With support from The Creative Europe Programme – MEDIA of the European Union

The Braid

SYNOPSIS 
Eleven-year-old Isa has a close connection to her mother Karin, a woman with a dark past and untreated anxieties. When Karin’s estranged mother dies, the family travels to her childhood home in the deep forests of Dalarna, Northern Sweden – a superstitious place where folklore myths and the old tradition of weaving human hair still live on. At the old house buried traumas start to take possession of Karin, who becomes obsessed with hair, lice and the dreaded creature “the Mare”. Now Isa must face the evil from her mother’s past, or she could fall victim to the same fate that once scarred Karin.