Mother Joan of the Angels

Mother Joan of the Angels

Maybe the trouble is not demons, but the absence of angels.

1961106 min7.6 / 10

A spiritually and psychologically complex meditation on faith, doubt, and the nature of evil, told through the lens of demonic possession as both literal horror and metaphysical crisis.

A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.

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