HEX

International premiere: Thessaloniki Documentary Festival / Newcomers Competition

HEX takes place in the heart of Norway’s world-renowned, male-dominated, macabre black metal scene, the perfect breeding ground for witches to come to life again. Three ordinary young women – Nikoline, Victoria, and Johanna – make a three-year pact to transform into the black metal band Witch Club Satan, using their music to express women’s raw, hidden powers and scream the screams of all women, despite not knowing how to play a single instrument beforehand. To succeed, they seek witches’ power, and over three years, the director follows as the band ignites rapidly, its flame spiraling out of control with a will and force that pulls them in different directions. The story tracks their struggle to hold onto the dream of freedom and magic in a contradictory, masculine world that’s difficult to balance as three vastly different girls, as doubts arise about what female freedom and qualities truly mean and whether they can live up to their shouts. However it ends, they definitely make a hell of a noise and start screaming.

A FILM BY Maja Holand | Norway | 2026 | 92'  | Sales: CATnDocs