In a barbaric fantasy sci-fi trip through time, sword-and-sorcery mythology is bent, fractured, and gender-swapped by master visionary Bertrand Mandico (THE WILD BOYS, AFTER BLUE (DIRTY PARADISE)) in his third feature epic. Six lives, six eras, and six deaths mark Conann’s poetic journey through different incarnations and lesbian loves. Guiding Conann through her many epic lives is Elina Löwensohn (AMATEUR, LET THE CORPSES TAN) as Rainer, a Cerberus of many otherworldly dimensions whose paparazzi camera sees all. The perversity of THE WILD BOYS and the hero’s journey of AFTER BLUE (DIRTY PARADISE) come together in this even greater handmade homage as Mandico ropes in influences as lush as FELLINI SATYRICON, THE NIGHT PORTER, THE HUNGER, and Fassbinder’s entire oeuvre to craft a moving portrait of a warrior trying to find her place while outside of space, time, and meaning. This official selection of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Fantastic Fest, and Sitges “thrives on its own bizarre extravagance as it pushes the limits of substance and style” (Collider).

Official Selection: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Locarno, Stiges, Fantastic Fest

2023 / 105 Minutes / In French, English, and German w/English Subtitles

“Mandico takes the figure of a sword and sorcery hero––obviously interested in his pulp magazine origins––and fashions a timeless, iterative narrative of phantasmagoric fluidity… and glitter.” -The Film Stage

“She Is Conann is an invitation to put decorum aside and savour a trippy filmmaker with an appetite for cult-classic cinema and transgressive art” -Screen Daily