Ireland, 19th century. Miss Anna O'Donnell stops eating, but she remains alive and well. The English nurse Lib Wright arrives in the village to observe the 11-year-old girl, who starts to attract more and more tourists and pilgrims as the months go by. Is she a saint or are there strangers things at work? Inspired by the many cases of "fasting girls" centuries ago and based on the novel of the same name by Emma Donoghue.
Sebastián Lelio
Chilean filmmaker born in 1974, Sebastián Lelio is known for A Fantastic Woman (2017), an Oscar-winning film awarded at the Berlin Film Festival. He began his career making short films in the 1990s and directed the features Fragmentos Urbanos (2002), The Sacred Family (2005), Christmas (2009), The Year of the Tiger (2011), Gloria (2013), Disobedience (2017), and Gloria Bell (2018).
