A young pregnant woman from a modest rural background is slowly adjusting to the privileged ways of her husband’s Moroccan family. However, when supernatural events plunge the country into a state of emergency, she becomes separated from her husband and his family. Sofia Alaoui’s debut feature is a visually mesmerising sci-fi film that delves into the tension between faith and purpose, revealing how deeply connected we are.

Reviews

Sofia Alaoui’s feature debut explores coming-of-age through gender, class and spirituality against the backdrop of an alien invasion.’
★★★★
Anton Bitel, Little White Lies

‘It is in its willingness to peer directly through the looking glass that most other science fiction works would blink in the face of where Animalia taps into something that remains as spectacular as it is elusive.’
Chase Hutchinson, Collider