A Witch Story

Young queer writer Alice was a teenager when she discovered something that changed her life forever: she was a descendant of Martha Allen Carrier, a woman hanged for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. At 24, after scouring archives, reading academic texts, and compiling hundreds of pages of notes on witch hunts, Alice is ready to share her findings in a book. But before finishing the story, she has some last strings to tie up, which leads her back to Salem to revisit the last days of Martha. Departing from a personal quest, and merging with the testimony of Italian feminist guru Silvia Federici and the disruptive work of Spanish artist Esther Musgo, A Witch Story is a feature documentary about memory and the need to unveil the real social and political motivations behind the Great Witch Hunts of Europe of the 16th -18th centuries to understand the violence waged against women today.