FFFA: Her Will Be Done

This film is also showing at our sister cinema, Lido Cinemas

Que ma volonté soit faite

Australian Premiere

"An intriguing mix of heady and earthy, in which folk-horror eeriness fuses with provincial narrow-mindedness." – Variety

Trapped within the confines of her Polish immigrant family’s cattle farm in the French countryside, 20-year-old Nawojka’s life is defined by her overbearing father and loutish brothers. But Nawojka is hiding a dangerous and terrifying secret from them: a feminine power she believes she inherited from her dead mother that surges whenever desire takes hold.

Nawojka's longing ignites when the free-spirited Sandra returns to the nearby village. What unfolds is a visceral reckoning with faith, female sexuality and the violence men reach for when they can’t understand what they fear.

César-nominated cinematographer Simon Beaufils (Anatomy of a Fall) uses 16mm film to imbue the iconic Vendée countryside with documentary realism. Director Julia Kowalski (born in France to Polish parents) brings a distinctly dual-cultural lens to this atmospheric horror, drawing on anthropological studies of rural witchcraft.

Her Will Be Done tells a raw, earthy and genuinely unsettling tale.

Festival Appearances & Awards
Cannes Film Festival 2025 – Official Selection, Director’s Fortnight
Sitges Film Festival 2025 – Official Selection
New Horizons Film Festival 2025 – Official Selection

Rating

Unclassified 18+

Duration

95 min

Country

France, Poland

Language

French, Polish (English subtitles)

Cast

Maria Wróbel, Roxane Mesquida, Wojciech Skibiński, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Raphaël Thiéry, Kuba Dyniewicz, Przemysław Przestrzelski

Director

Julia Kowalski