The Innocents
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Rated: PG-13 Runtime: 115 min. Language: in French and Polish with English subtitles Directed by: Anne Fontaine Starring: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza Winner of the Audience Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival, The Innocents is the harrowing story of a young Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German concentration camps in 1945 Poland. She discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy during a visit to a nearby convent. A non-believer, she enters the sisters' fiercely private world, dictated by the rituals of their order and the strict Reverend Mother. Fearing the shame of exposure and the new anti-Catholic Communist government, the nuns must hide their pregnancies at all costs. "The Innocents is a powerful, brave film that will stay with you for days." ~ Globe and Mail