MATERNAL

A moving, lively study of conflicting duties and desires in a Buenos Aires hogar – a convent-based refuge for young single mothers – that marks an assured shift into narrative filmmaking for Italian docmaker Maura Delpero.

Guy Lodge, Variety

Cast & Credits

Rating: NR
Genre: Drama
Directed By: Maura Delpero
Written By:Maura Delpero
To Be Released: 2020
Runtime: 91 minutes
Cast: Lidiya Liberman, Renata Palminiello, Denise Carrizo, Agustina Malale, Marta Lubos, Isabella Cilia, Livia Fernán, Alan Rivas

Synopsis

The Hogar is a paradoxical world in which the precocious maternity of a group of teen moms lives together with the vow of chastity made by the nuns who welcomed them, between rigid rules and Christian love. Sister Paola has just arrived in Buenos Aires from Italy to finish her novitiate and take her final votes at the Hogar, an Italian religious center for teen moms in Buenos. Lu and Fati, both 17, are children abruptly converted into mothers. Three different women who will influence each other’s lives and their relationship with motherhood.