"This year's award winner is based on a true story from the times just after World War II, and is the agonising story of innocents subjected to abuse. War always demands its victims and evil can also strike down the most God-fearing people. With a stylistically assured cinematography and convincing actors eschewing cliches, the film takes us inside a Polish monastery, where the nuns have been subjected to terrifyingly evil deeds. Everything the nuns have left is the concern and vigour of a young French woman of the Red Cross. The film reaches all the way to the bottom of the dark room it is exploring, but still succeeds in formulating the following response to the problem of evil: Faith is 24 hours of doubt and one minute of hope."
