Sony is a good Christian, the beating heart of his rural Catholic community. He always lends his fellow villagers a helping hand, assists children with their school lessons and organises volunteer activities. Under his genial exterior, however, lurks something dark.

Exposing the unease beneath everyday piety, Family is a haunting film that resists spectacle. Peeling back the layers of a close-knit rural community through spare dialogue and static dim-lit frames, this unsettling slow burn dissects the silences and allegiances that allow perpetrators to endure.