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MATERNAL New Auteurs

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Talent attending: Maura Delpero (Director)

Teenage mothers, Lu and Fati, live in a Catholic residence called Hogar in Buenos Aires with their children. Fati is pregnant with her second child after being raped and can’t go back home. One day Lu leaves the shelter to live with her boyfriend, abandoning her young daughter, Nina. When Sister Paola arrives to take her final vows, she is tasked with caring for Nina, bringing up her unresolved feelings of joy towards motherhood as she grows attached to the girl. The three women’s outlooks on the maternal experience transform as their lives intertwine in their protective, yet isolated, home.

Known for her nonfiction filmmaking, director Maura Delpero brings her stylistic approach to the drama, creating a contemplative, striking and complex portrait of womanhood and love. –Sarah Harris