Kissed by Winter is one of ten foreign films to premiere on Zee Studio.

An emotionally buttoned-up doctor flees home and husband after the death of her young son, trying to escape her grief by tending to the citizens of a small town. Instead, she becomes an amateur sleuth investigating the mysterious death of a young Muslim immigrant. Lean and precise, this melancholy film sneaks up on you with its insightful sketches of grief, loss and tearstained resolution. Annika Hallin is fantastic as the inwardly crumbling doctor, while director Sara Johnsen's recurring use of Jeff Buckley's version of "Hallelujah," especially in the film's closing moments, fuses music and image into a graceful poetry of spiritual ache and escape.