Sisterhood (2021)

Original title

Ainsi soient-elles

Directed by

Maxime Faure

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows the last eight nuns of a social justice-oriented order in Montreal, all in their 80s. It shows their daily lives and reflections as their community declines.

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What happens

Sisterhood (French: Ainsi soient-elles) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Maxime Faure and released in 2019. The film profiles the Society of Helpers of the Holy Spirit, a Montreal-based social justice-oriented order of Roman Catholic nuns who are now in decline as only eight of them remain and all are in their 80s. The film premiered in November 2019 at the Montreal International Documentary Festival, and continued to have film festival screenings in 2020, although due to the disruptions of film distribution in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it only went into wider commercial release in 2021. Léna Mill-Reuillard received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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