The Prayer (ፀሎት) (Jan. 1, 2016)

91min | Thriller

Mick is an American teenager whose father is a doctor in the organization “Doctors Without Borders”. Living in Addis Ababa and attending an international high school, Mick is subject to a great amount of teasing and physical abuse by the local boys. His loyal girlfriend Selam rushes to his defense. Selam decides that the best thing to do would be to say a prayer of protection to keep Mick from harm. To increase the likelihood of the prayer’s success, she brings Mick to a special place outside of the city, a spiritual sylvan glade where exorcisms have been known to take place. It is here that Mick comes to be imbued by Asmodeus, the demon-god of lust. It does not take long before Mick enters into a fugue state and engages in more and more violent and sexually perverse behavior. Realizing something has gone very wrong, Selam has to struggle with Mick’s erratic and dangerous behavior and the possibility that his condition may in fact be due to what she’s done.

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Age restriction: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)