Sisterhood (2019 film)
2019 documentary film by Maxime Faure / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sisterhood (French: Ainsi soient-elles) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Maxime Faure and released in 2019.[1] 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.[2]
Sisterhood | |
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French | Ainsi soient-elles |
Directed by | Maxime Faure |
Produced by | Audrey-Ann Dupuis-Pierre Estelle Robin You |
Cinematography | Léna Mill-Reuillard |
Edited by | Karen Benainous |
Music by | Camille Poliquin |
Production companies | Les Films du Balibari Metafilms |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | Canada |
The film premiered in November 2019 at the Montreal International Documentary Festival,[3] and continued to have film festival screenings in 2020,[4] 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.[5]
Léna Mill-Reuillard received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022.[6]