Anna Marie de la Fuente Leading Barcelona production-distribution company Filmax has picked up the international rights to “Ama,” the directorial debut of Spain’s Julia de Paz Solvas.
The mother-daughter drama bowed at Spain’s 24th Malaga Film Festival this week, where it plays in official competition. Filmax releases the feature theatrically in Spain on July 16.Produced by La Dalia Films, “Ama” follows a mother, Pepa, and her six-year-old daughter, Leila, who find themselves homeless after they are kicked out from where they were living.
Cast adrift, they struggle to find shelter but in the process, form a tight bond that was virtually non-existent before that.“‘Ama’ looks at motherhood as a human relationship, references of which are,.
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