Baltic premiere

La Maternal

Local title
Emalik
Director
Pilar Palomero
Country
Spain
Year
2022
Programme
Children's Rights Programme, Youth Competition
Genre
drama
Subject
interpersonal relationships, motherhood, youth

Carla is a wild 14-year-old girl living with a toxic single mother. One night she wakes up in a sweat, feeling ill: she discovers she is six months pregnant and is transferred to La Maternal, a shelter for teenagers at risk of social exclusion. There she meets her educators, and other teens in the same situation - Raki, Estel, Claudia, Jamila and Sheila - who take care of their babies with the help of social workers. At first hermetic and distrustful, she tries to learn how to be a mother when in reality, she just wants to be a child again. She is afraid of being as bad a mother as her own was. But little by little, she realizes her mum’s struggles, and motherhood eventually brings them together. As she gets closer to the group of girls with the same problems, Carla feels a little less alone in the world, soon ready to make crucial decisions.

Age recommendation: 12+

Director
Pilar Palomero
Screenwriter
Pilar Palomero
Cast
Carla Quílez, Ángela Cervantes, Rubén Martínez, Pepe Lorente
Producer
Valérie Delpierre, Alex Lafuente
Cinematographer
Julián Elizalde
Editor
Sofia Escudé
Production
Inicia Films, BTEAM PRODS, Les films du Worso
World sales
Elle Driver
Runtime
Language
Spanish
Subtitles
Estonian, English
Other festivals
San Sebastian, Chicago
Director
Pilar Palomero

Filmograafia Las niñas (2020), La maternal (2022)

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3rd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening011202 / Emalik
SubtitlesEnglish, Estonian
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4th Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening041301 / Emalik
SubtitlesEnglish, Estonian
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3rd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening121204 / Emalik
SubtitlesEnglish, Estonian
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