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Maternal

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Lu and Fati are teen mothers living in a religious shelter in Buenos Aires. Sister Paola arrives there to take her final vows.

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Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter 08/10/2019
Delpero shows a sure hand with her performers, especially Malale, a nonprofessional quite evidently drawing on her own experiences in a real-life hogar... Go to Full Review Guy Lodge Variety 08/10/2019
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. Go to Full Review Fausto Ponce Proceso 04/28/2020
Hogar is a good genre movie, and it pays for the time we were waiting for the conclusion. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Matt Cipolla The Spool 01/17/2020
[Delpero's] camera is still for what very well might be the entire film, yet she and editors Ilaria Fraioli and Luca Mattei establish a decent sense of place. Go to Full Review Juan Pablo Russo EscribiendoCine 12/18/2019
8/10
The film builds a proper amount of suspense to really hammer through some of the questions that the religion itself raises. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Gaspar Zimerman Clarín 12/13/2019
The film presents a moral dilemma with sensitivity and economy of resources. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Maura Delpero

Director

Lidiya Liberman

Sister Paola

Livia Fernán

Sister Pía

Marta Lubos

Mother Superior

Denise Carrizo

Fátima

Isabella Cilia

Nina

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Movie Info

Synopsis Lu and Fati are teen mothers living in a religious shelter in Buenos Aires. Sister Paola arrives there to take her final vows.
Director
Maura Delpero
Screenwriter
Maura Delpero
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Runtime
1h 31m