From new partner label Yellow Veil Pictures comes the four-disc THE WORLDS OF LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ, featuring the award-winning French-Bosnian filmmaker’s modern classics INNOCENCE, EVOLUTION, EARWIG and THE ICE TOWER, with more than four hours of fascinating Special Features and an all-new 60-page booklet of essays and appreciations.
Severin Films’ 20th Anniversary festivities continue with THE WORLDS OF LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ available for pre-order now at Severin Webstore.
THE WORLDS OF LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ presents an immersive journey through the filmography of Lucile Hadžihalilović, “an artist of radical gentleness whose films each resemble a delicately poisoned fairy tale” (Le Monde). Originally known for her collaborations as editor and producer for longtime partner Gaspar Noé, writer/director Hadžihalilović’s own internationally acclaimed quartet of modern classics crafts poetically surreal tales where dreams and nightmares are layered in embraces of tenderness and terror. Two of the four films in this collection are North American Blu-ray Premieres and include over four combined hours of fascinating Special Features and a 60-page booklet with all-new essays by Saffron Maeve, Alison Taylor and Stephen Thrower.
INNOCENCE
Lucile Hadžihalilović’s breakthrough debut is a dreamlike descent into a secluded boarding school where nostalgia and dread intertwine for “a surreal and unexpectedly euphoric” (Sight & Sound) examination of young sisterhood. César, BAFTA and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard stars in this “haunting and hypnotic fairy tale” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) that Indiewire hails as “at once a feminist parable and bedtime story that unfolds like a crouching animal, waiting to pounce.” INNOCENCE is accompanied by two of Hadžihalilović’s acclaimed shorts, DE NATURA and NECTAR, both featuring personal introductions. Viewers can further explore this world through “Innocence Explained” by young actress Zoé Auclair, a scholarly video essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and a Q&A recorded at the IFC Center In October 2025.
Disc 1: INNOCENCE
Special Features:
● Introduction By Lucile Hadžihalilović
● Short Film DE NATURA With Introduction By Lucile Hadžihalilović
● Short Film NECTAR With Introduction By Lucile Hadžihalilović
● Innocence Explained By Actress Zoé Auclair
● Video Essay By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
● Q&A At The IFC Center
● Trailer
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 122 mins
Audio: French Dolby DTS HD-Master Audio
Subtitles: English
Region A
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
EVOLUTION
Lucile Hadžihalilović’s second feature is a minimalist body horror about a boy who uncovers a mysterious world of inhuman biology and haunting transformation. Julie-Marie Parmentier (MURDEROUS MAIDS, FAREWELL MY QUEEN) stars in the startling film that has been described as “a gynocentric nightmare” (Chicago Reader), “a singular, daring vision” (Arizona Republic) and “a wondrous dream constantly on the verge of a nightmare” (Indiewire). This disc provides deep technical insight with a discussion between Hadžihalilović and cinematographer Manu Dacosse, alongside an interview with co-writer Alanté Kavaïté.
Disc 2: EVOLUTION
Special Features:
● Introduction By Lucile Hadžihalilović
● Discussion Between Cinematographer Manu Dacosse and Director Lucile Hadžihalilović
● Interview With Writer Alanté Kavaïté
● Trailer
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 81 mins
Audio: French Dolby DTS HD-Master Audio
Subtitles: English
Region A
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
EARWIG
The third feature and English-language debut by “the emergent champion of slow-burn, surrealist cinema” (The Guardian) is a Kafkaesque fable of fatherhood, isolation and teeth made of ice. Paul Hilton (LADY MACBETH), Romola Garai (SUFFRAGETTE) and Alex Lawther (THE IMITATION GAME) star in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s surreal neo-noir that The New York Times calls “a trip down the darkest of rabbit holes,” accompanied by what Sight & Sound hails as “enigmatic, oneiric visions that burrow their way into darker crevices of the viewer’s consciousness”. Adapted from the novel by Brian Catling (The Vorrh), EARWIG is deconstructed through Special Features that include interviews with the director, co-writer Geoff Cox and cinematographer Jonathan Ricquebourg.
Disc 3: EARWIG
Special Features:
● Introduction By Lucile Hadžihalilović
● Interview With Lucile Hadžihalilović
● Interview With Co-Writer Geoff Cox
● Interview With Cinematographer Jonathan Ricquebourg
● Trailer
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 114 mins
Audio: English Dolby DTS HD-Master Audio
Subtitles: English Closed Captions
Region A
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
THE ICE TOWER
Two decades after the stunning breakthrough of INNOCENCE, Marion Cotillard reunites with writer/director Lucile Hadžihalilović for her award-winning fourth feature, a meta-fantasy freely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. Clara Pacini, August Diehl (INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS) and Gaspar Noé co-star in this “mesmerizing and unnerving masterpiece in which reality, cinema and fantasy become one of a kind” (Collider) from “a filmmaker with an uncompromising voice — one that continues to whisper strange, scary things into our ears” (The Hollywood Reporter). This final disc contains introspective content, including an interview by Beatrice Loayza, two additional Q&As from the IFC Center, a second video essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and a technical interview with Jonathan Ricquebourg.
Disc 4: THE ICE TOWER
Special Features:
● Introduction By Lucile Hadžihalilović
● Interview With Cinematographer Jonathan Ricquebourg
● Interview With Lucile Hadžihalilović By Beatrice Loayza
● 2 Q&As At The IFC Center
● Video Essay By Alexandra Heller- Nicholas
● Trailer
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 117 mins
Audio: French & English Dolby DTS HD-Master Audio
Subtitles: English
Region A
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
*Includes 60-page booklet The Worlds of Lucile Hadžihalilović featuring all-new essays by Saffron
Maeve, Alison Taylor and Stephen Thrower.
