Set on the wind-battered coast of Chiloé in the 1880s, "Sorcery" follows a young Indigenous woman whose search for justice pulls her toward forces the colonial world around her refuses to acknowledge. Christopher Murray directs this Chilean-German-Mexican co-production, released in 2023.
What is Sorcery about?
On a remote island off southern Chile, Rosa works alongside her father on land controlled by a foreman quick to violence. When that violence turns fatal, formal channels offer her nothing, so she turns instead toward the island's older, largely suppressed spiritual traditions for a form of justice the settlers' courts were never built to deliver. Valentina Veliz anchors the film as Rosa, with Daniel Antivilo, Sebastian Hülk, Daniel Muñoz, Annick Durán, Manuela Oyarzún, and Neddiel Munoz Millalonco filling out the surrounding community and colonial authority. The film runs 100 minutes.
About the cast
The ensemble is built around Valentina Veliz's performance as Rosa, opposite Daniel Antivilo and Sebastian Hülk in colonial-authority roles. Daniel Muñoz, Annick Durán, Manuela Oyarzún, and Neddiel Munoz Millalonco round out an island community caught between the settlers' law and older practices the film treats as historically real. Christopher Murray directs a script grounded in Chiloé's documented folk-magic traditions.
Context & significance
"Sorcery" was produced across Chile, Germany, and Mexico, part of a wave of festival-circuit filmmaking that revisits 19th-century colonial violence in Latin America through an Indigenous lens rather than a settler one. Chiloé's brujería lore, folk practice tied to real historical persecution, gives the story a specific regional texture distinct from more generic fantasy settings. The fantasy genre tag reflects how seriously the film treats those beliefs rather than staging them as spectacle.
Watching Sorcery on Ktime
"Sorcery" streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, both available for viewers who prefer to watch in Farsi. Access requires a free K-Time account login; the film's page itself is open to read without signing in. K-Time's Farsi-first interface makes it easy for the diaspora audience to browse titles like this one.