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Pilar Palomero on Girlhood and Social Change in San Sebastian World Premiere ‘La Maternal’

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Caitlin Quinlan Pilar Palomero’s second feature film “La Maternal” had its world premiere in main competition at Spain’s San Sebastián Film Festival on Tuesday.

The Spanish filmmaker, who won Goyas for best picture, best new director and best original screenplay with her debut film “Las Niñas,” produced like “La Maternal” by Valérie Delpierre at Inicia Films, returns to the Basque Country festival with another invigorating work that explores the challenges and joys of girlhood.  “I never made a decision to explicitly focus on girlhood,” Palomero says. “I think it’s a coincidence that both are about young women, but I guess there’s something inside me that I’m not aware of that’s leading me to this subject.”  In “La Maternal,” sold by Elle Driver, Palomero turns her attention to teen mothers in Barcelona and the social attitudes that condemn them.

14-year-old Carla leaves home when she discovers she is pregnant and arrives at a specialist shelter for young girls and their children.

It’s a story grounded in the real lives of many of the actors, non-professionals who the filmmaker says were “really willing to be in the film because they really wanted to explain their stories.

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