Directed by Rebecca Parrish | USA | 2015 | Documentary | 77 mins
Best of Fest, AFI Docs
Sponsored by The Caroline Baird Crichfield Fund
Film Source: Producers
At a time when the Pope is the focus of the world’s attention and portrayed as speaking up for the poor and for the environment, we get to see and hear nuns who are speaking up for women’s equality. “This film comes at a major crossroads in the Catholic Church, and the nuns are everything that’s right with the institution. They stand with the marginalized, and won’t be bullied by the hierarchy,” writes Susan Sarandon, executive producer of Radical Grace. The film follows three radical, feminist nuns who may well be the most inspiring women you have ever seen on screen, regardless of your beliefs. We laugh and cry with them, but mainly we’re in awe of their fierce independence of spirit working within a patriarchal institution. The film follows the nuns on their cross-country campaigns, giving voice to their frustrations and inner struggles, and showing us how these sisters are transforming American politics.