"The same award goes to a film of intense seductive power and boldness. Within an unconventional visual concept, video-game aesthetics and heavy metal, sci-fi genre tropes and medieval initiation rituals, magic realism and poetry alchemically blend together to create an unexpected hyper-reality. An unsettling vision of a possible future, existing in the realm of the uncanny (in the psychoanalytical sense). A possible comment on today's increasing phenomenon of radicalized youth and a post-modern rite of passage into manhood, this shape-shifting film is essentially a meditation on the transformative and healing power of human connection."