Italy
59′, 2021.
DIRECTED BY
Stefania Muresu
PRODUCED BY
Caucaso
SCRIPTWRITER

CINEMATOGRAPHER
Stefania Muresu
EDITED BY
Enrico Masi
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Princesa is a Nigerian woman who arrived in Sardinia through human trafficking. This island holds a syncretism between the beliefs of primitive animism, the Christian cults, and the recent ones of the Nigerian evangelical churches. Princesa has made a choice, but she is not free yet. A magnetic tape of a funeral rite and the scene of a Nollywoodian drama reveal the biographical traces of Princesa's story. As a victim of a curse she is silently trying to liberate herself. In 2018, Oba Ewuare II, spiritual leader of Edo State, issued a religious edict of epochal importance in which he revokes the oaths that bind trafficked women through the curse of juju.

Stefania Muresu is a filmmaker and visual sociologist. In her work, she practices a multidisciplinary approach; she crosses the visual research perspectives with the languages of the creative documentary. 

PRINCESA - teaser /// WORLD PREMIERE; GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI, VENICE 2021 from Caucaso Factory on Vimeo.