Ave Maria

Ave Maria

Rules are for breaking!

201515 min5.8 / 10

A wry, silent-comedy collision between cloistered religious life and secular intrusion, built on the tension between spiritual rules and human compassion.

The silent routine of 5 Nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect.

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