Maternal by Maura Delpero

Sister Paola has just arrived to Buenos Aires from Italy to finish her novitiate and take her final votes at the Hogar, an Italian religious centre for teen mums in Buenos. Once there, she will face a world she wouldn’t have expected. Lu and Fati, both 17, are children abruptly converted into mothers. One night Lu, in her intimate dilemma between the love for her child Nina and the attraction for her boyfriend, will escape the Hogar, “abandoning” Nina. While Lu’s away, Sister Paola is given the custody of Nina, living kind of a short maternity that will arouse deep doubts in her heart about her life and her monastic path.

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Argentina, Italia, 91 min, 2019

Producers: Campo Cine, Rai Cinema, Disparate, Vivo Film

Premiere: Locarno International Film Festival, Jury Special Mention