What drives a mother to drown her two babies in her bath at home? The news of an infanticide committed by a distant acquaintance upsets María, a young journalist whose recent motherhood is marked by exhaustion and the anguish of not being up to the task, to the limits of obsession. In her third feature film after Three Days with the Family and We All Want What's Best for Her, Mar Coll takes Katixa Agirre's novel Las madres no to even more disturbing territory. This dramatic thriller with hints of body horror looks into the dark abyss into which the experience of puerperal motherhood can turn. Winner of a Special Mention from the Official Jury and the Third Prize of the Youth Jury at the Locarno Festival, Mother Don't also marks the first major film role for the stunning Laura Weissmahr.
Mar Coll
Filmmaker born in Barcelona in 1981. Her feature film debut, ‘Tres dies amb la família’ (2009), won three Biznagas at the Malaga Film Festival and the Goya for best new director, as well as three Gaudí awards. In 2013 she opened the Valladolid Festival with ‘We All Want What’s Best for Her’, which harvested the award for best actress for Nora Navas, who was also nominated for the Goyas. In television fiction, she directed the miniseries ‘Killing the Father’ (2017) for Movistar Plus+, selected at the prestigious Séries Mania festival, and ‘This is Not Sweden’ (2023), co-directed with Aina Clotet, awarded the Prix Europa and selected for this year’s Canneseries edition. ‘Salve Maria’ (2024), her third feature film, had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival, where it received a special mention from the jury and the third prize from the young jury. She combines her work as a director and screenwriter with teaching at ESCAC.
Screenings
O.V. in Spanish, Catalan subtitled in Spanish and English
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