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AGNUS DEI

By Alejandra SANCHEZ

Documentary - Completed 2011

Agnus Dei, Lamb of God is a documentary that interweaves the life of Jesús Romero and the life inside a Minor Catholic seminar.

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- MEXICO, FRANCE
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Alejandra SANCHEZ
- Writer(s)
- Alejandra SANCHEZ
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-C66C-0000-1-0000-0000-Y
- EIDR
- 10.5240/8D31-5859-C252-CA23-1CB8-Y
- Producer(s)
- Carole SOLIVE (LA FEMME ENDORMIE), Celia ITURRIAGA (PEPA FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Jesús Romero was an acolyte when the priest of his church abused him when he was 11. His mother, a very devoted catholic, yearning for her son to become a priest, leaves him at church where the abuses continued for several years. One day, Jesús finds out that the priest exchanges nude photos he had taken of him in a child pornography ring; he alson finds out that he is sexually abusing other children. After going through contradictory crises and syndromes, product of the trauma derived from this love-hate relationship with his aggressor, he decides to legally denounce him, face him in person and make public his story.
  The story of Jesús is a victim's story, undertaking a battle against the indifference and corruption of the Catholic Church, agains the complicity of the judges obstructing the legal process to protect predatory priests, and also a battle against himself, trying to leave behind his fragility as a victim and face his aggressor to break free of the past that stole his childhood and his freedom.
  Jesús tries to rebuild his life; tries to get back the love that he once had for Doña Esperanza, his mother, who trying to give her son to God, gave him to a priest who is still preaching in spite of the scandal and the legal process against him. Doña Esperanza is still a devoted Catholic, she sees her son's painful story as a test God put her through. Jesús actually studies psychology trying to understand the labyrinths of his life and to rescue other childhoods in order to save himself and re-invent his own life.
- Partners & financing
- IMCINE
  International Seller : Cat & Docs (Worldwide)