Apostasy

classified PG
Film

Please note: This was screened in Aug 2018

Director
Dan Kokotajlo
Cast
Siobhan Finneran, Robert Emms, Sacha Parkinson
Details
96 mins, 2017, UK
Primary language
English

Written and directed by Daniel Kokotajlo, a former Jehovah's Witness, this is a remarkable, authentic, and rare insight into the complex nature of faith, family, duty and love.

As devout Jehovah's Witnesses, sisters Alex (Molly Wright) and Luisa (Sacha Parkinson) and their mother, Ivanna (Siobhan Finneran), are united in The Truth. Alex looks up to her confident older sister, while striving to follow in Ivanna's footsteps as a ‘good Witness'. But when Luisa starts to question the advice of the Elders, she makes a life-altering transgression that threatens to expel her from the congregation. Thus begins an unexpected turn of events that throw the whole family into a heartbreaking moral test of faith versus love…

Sensitive, subtle and respectful - this is a moving exploration of the dilemma between religion and humanity.


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