BROOM-08. The Passion of Augustine

Canada (Quebec), 103 min., Feature Narrative

Taking place in rural Quebec, this is an unpredictable film about a nun with a passion for teaching music. It’s the 1960s and socio-political change is in the air, characterized by the growing secularization in education. Mother Augustine is the principal of a small convent music school that is known for producing prize-winning musicians, yet they must get with the times or risk losing everything. Mother Augustine’s hip young niece, difficult musical prodigy Alice Champagne, arrives and the nuns and girls band together to change it up, play music and save their convent. Boasting amusing moments that could only come from when plucky old nuns meet the psychedelic punch of ?60s counterculture, this is a truly heartwarming film that will leave you singing.