Supernatural

5/29/2025

Ventura Durall's documentary "Supernatural" begins with a seemingly impossible premise: a young girl on the brink of death, medical science at its limits, and a distant healer who allegedly saved her life through telepathic intervention. From this extraordinary starting point, the film unfolds into a rich exploration of belief, family trauma, and human complexity. The documentary follows Anna Alarcón, now a well-known Spanish actress, as she seeks to understand the man who she believes saved her life when she was 8 years old. Suffering from severe anorexia and attached to feeding tubes, young Anna seemed beyond medical help when her desperate parents contacted André Malby, a respected shaman. Without ever seeing Anna, Malby performed some ritual and sent medicinal powder, after which An