Mothers Don’t (Las madres no) is the new feature film from Mar Coll and marks the filmmaker’s return to cinema. Always with a focus on intimate relationships, she is acclaimed for Three Days with the Family [+leggi anche:
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The film is inspired by the novel of the same name by Basque author Katixa Agirre (published in 2018) and tells the story of María, a young new mother and writer haunted by the case of another who coldly murdered her twin babies; writing about this scandal is the only way to understand her own radical experience of motherhood.

Its cast is headed by Laura Weissmahr (seen in titles such as Júlia ist [+leggi anche:
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In the words of its director, "the protagonist is a repentant mother, an association of words that creates an automatic unease. How can you disown a baby: the most helpless, innocent and pure being there is? Well, you can. But motherhood has been so under-represented and so partially represented in often a softness that any dissonant experience has been buried by taboo.”

Mothers Don’t is a production by Escándalo Films and Elastica Films with the support of ICEC and ICAA, and the participation of RTVE and Movistar Plus+. It will be distributed in Spain by Elastica Films and its international sales will be handled by the French agency Playtime.