The New Boy

UK 12A Certificate
In cinemas
March 15, 2024
Buy it from
June 3, 2024
Director
Runtime
1 Hour 36 Minutes
Genre
Drama
Language
English
From Signature Entertainment
moderate violence, language, bloody images, discrimination
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In a remote monastery in 1940s Australia, a mission for Indigenous Australian children is run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen. A new charge is delivered in the dead of night – a boy who appears to have special powers. When the monastery takes possession of a precious relic, a large carving of Christ on the cross, the new boy encounters Jesus for the first time and is transfixed. However, the boy’s Indigenous spiritual life does not gel with the mission’s Christianity and his mysterious power becomes a threat. Sister Eileen is faced with a choice between the traditions of her faith and the truth embodied in the boy, in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.

Last updated
May 7, 2024

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