Written and directed by Sabrina Mertens
Starring Zelda Espenschied, Miriam Schiweck, Freya Kreutzkam and Bernd Wolf
Language: German
Running time: 1 hour and 21 minutes
Unrated-contains some nudity, disturbing images and light body horror

by Benjamin Leonard, Best Boy

IMDb lists Time of Moulting’s genres as “drama, history and horror” and the brief synopsis makes it seem like it’s more of an art film than a straight narrative. Further investigation showed that this is Sabrina Mertens’s feature debut and was made at the Baden-Württemberg Filmakademie. So I was prepared, going in, for this to be a lot more subtle than many of the other things I’ve watched for Fantasia Film Festival.