The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands

Synopsis

The film is set in the 1860s in the Northwestern United States. We follow Isabel, a Native American woman who has been educated at a Christian missionary school, and thus struggles with the loss of her cultural heritage. She begins her work as a governess for the daughters of a British widower. As the arranged marriage of the eldest daughter approaches, tensions in the household escalate, and a mysterious connection between the women and the surrounding forest is revealed — a bond that the girls' father is desperate to dissolve.

Production Facts

Director: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
Screenplay: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén' and Sjón
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Darla Contois, Lily LaTorre, Bronte Carmichael, Forrest Goodluck, and Pernilla August.

The film is produced by HOBAB (Nima Yosefi) in co-production with Resolve Media, Quiddity, Need Productions, Still Vivid, Film i Väst, SVT, VOO, OBE & Be tv, Proximus, Shelter Prod, and Tint, in association with Finite Films, Northern Ireland Screen, and the UK Global Screen Fund financed by the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport and administered by the BFI. It is produced with the support of Eurimages, Creative Europe, the Swedish Film Institute, the Film and Audiovisual Center of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Screen Brussels, Taxshelter.be & ING, the Tax Shelter of the Belgian federal government, the Icelandic Film Centre, the Icelandic Tax Credit, and the Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

"The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands" is set for delivery in May 2026.