MATERNAL
Audience Design Consultancy (2019)

Co-consulted with Paul Rieth
Funded by TFL Audience Design Fund

Drama   91 min.

Production Stage: Completed

Production Countries: Italy/Argentina

Participating film team: Greta Nordio (producer)

Writer/Director: Maura Delpero

World Premiere: Locarno Film Festival 2019

SYNOPSIS

Lu is a disruptive, rebellious teenage mother. She lives with her daughter Nina in a women’s refuge run by a group of nuns in Buenos Aires. The arrival of Paola, a sympathetic Italian nun who takes a shine to Nina, coincides with Lu going missing. What ensues is a sensitively realized and ultimately heartbreaking portrait of life in a refuge.