Voice, The

[Subtitled] [Plays May 15-23 as part of the MSPIFF39 Redefined: A Virtual Film Festival; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org/festivals/mspiff.] After a smart, rebellious, stubborn teenager (Franko Jakovcevic) with atheist tendencies is dropped off at a rural Catholic boarding school in Croatia when his mother (Barbara Vickovic) takes a job on a cruise ship in Ognjen Svili?i?'s engaging, thought-provoking, realistic, down-to-Earth, 80-minute, 2019 film highlighted by striking photography, he finds himself at odds with the strict headmistress (Belma Kosutic), the priest (Stipe Radoja), and his religious peers (Lovre Trogrlic, Petar Cakic, Nina Crncevic, et al.) when he refuses to pray and blindly accept taught beliefs.
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