A version of this story about “Procession” first appeared in the Documentary Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Director Robert Greene has spent much of his career examining how re-enactment and performance can lead to deeper truths in movies like “Kate Plays Christine” and “Bisbee ’17,” but performance takes the form of therapy in “Procession.”
In the film, a group of six survivors of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests create their own scenes in depicting the most traumatic moments of their lives, playing the perpetrators and confronting the past.
I understand this movie began when you saw a video of a press conference with some survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.