
Penance
God may forgive you, but she never will.
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5/29/2013Runtime
270 minsGenres
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The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.

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A haunting exploration of how unresolved trauma ripples through a community, following four girls as they each grapple with the weight of a murdered child and a mother's unrelenting curse. Meditative and psychologically punishing, it examines whether penance can ever truly atone.
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