Ruega Por Nosotros

Director Daniel Monzon’s Pray for Us (Ruega Por Nosotros) takes on the history of Spain’s state-backed Catholic reform schools for girls, viciously overseen by nuns. The schools institutionalized violence against girls and young women in the name of moral salvation. Although they were opened in 1941, they didn’t officially close until 1985, ten years after Franco’s death and well into the country’s transition to democracy. The narrtive centers on two teenage girls brutalized by the nuns. This part of Spain’s history is a past worth exposing,