Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniołów) + intro (Samizdat)

<div><div><b>Screening as part of the&nbsp;</b><font color="#0000ee"><b><u><a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/samizdat-eastern-european-film-festival">Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival 2026</a></u></b></font><b>.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Book tickets for two or more of our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/halloween">Halloween</a>&nbsp;films in the same transaction to receive a discount!</b><b></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><b><br></b></div><b>This screening will have an introduction.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>One of the defining works of post-war Polish cinema, <i>Mother Joan of the Angels</i> follows a priest sent to a remote convent to investigate reports of demonic possession among the nuns. As he attempts to exorcise Mother Joan, the convent’s possessed prioress, he becomes increasingly unsettled and drawn to her. Their encounter develops into a spiritual and moral struggle in which religious fervour, suppressed passion and the desire for salvation become entangled with the fear of sin and the presence of evil.</div><div><br></div><div>Drawing on the same 17th-century Loudun possessions that Ken Russell later revisited in <i>The Devils </i>(also screening at Filmhouse <a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/ken-russells-the-devils-4k-restoration">in 4K</a> or <a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/ken-russells-the-devils-35mm">from 35mm</a>), Kawalerowicz takes a radically different approach. Shot in stark black and white, with severe compositions and stripped-back settings, the film replaces baroque spectacle with formal restraint, ritual and psychological tension, giving the drama an austere, almost abstract intensity.</div>DramaPT1H45MPG2026-10-25PLpl
Lucyna Winnicka
Mieczysław Voit
Anna Ciepielewska
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniołów) + intro (Samizdat)"Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniołów) + intro (Samizdat)"

Showtimes

October 25, 6:00 pm

Filmhouse