original title:
Mother fortress
directed by:
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
production:
Damascena Film, Rai Cinema, with the support of MAECI - Directorate General for the Promotion of the Country System, under the patronage of Roma Lazio Film Commission
distribution:
country:
Italy
year:
2019
film run:
78'
format:
colour
status:
Ready (10/01/2019)
festivals & awards:
Mother Agnes, along with monks, nuns from France, Belgium, Portugal, Lebanon, Chile, Venezuela, Colorado-USA (some of them former journalists), faces the effects of the war in Syria on her monastery, located at the foot of the mountains on the border with Lebanon where ISIS insidiously hides.
Despite being itself the target of attacks, the monastery welcomes orphans, widows, refugees (Christians and Sunnis), victims of a fratricidal war that since 2011 has produced chaos and devastation. By organizing a convoy of ambulances and trucks, travelling along roads controlled by ISIS snipers, Mother Agnes pursues the daring mission of providing humanitarian aid (food, clothes, medicine) to the Syrians trapped in the country. An exploration of the human condition in times of war, the film is a material and spiritual journey, a 'love story' with destination Rome where the secret gets revealed ...