Spanish director Liliana Torres is preparing to shoot Mamifera, the final film in a trilogy of features about relationships and family life that began with her San Sebastian premiere Family Tour and includes Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival competition film What Went Wrong
Mamifera, which is the Spanish word for a female mammal, is scheduled to start shooting at the end of February, and centres on an unwanted pregnancy.
It focuses on Lola, who accidentally gets pregnant at a time when Spanish law required women to reflect for three days before proceeding to terminate a pregnancy. The law, which dates back to 2010, was repealed in 2022. The feature spans three days in Lola’s life, supported by her partner.
Mamifera is produced by Miriam Porte at Distinto Films, the company behind Avelina Prat’s Vasil, and co-produced with Carla Sospedra’s Edna Cinema. Sospedra is a producer of Isabel Coixet’s documentary’s The Yellow Ceiling (El Sostre Groc).
Filmax will distribute Mamifera in Spain.
Mamifera stars Maria Rodriguez, who appeared in Clara Roquet’s Libertad and Enric Auquer who acted in Leticia Dolera’s Perfect Life, a 2019 Canneseries winner.
“I want to contribute to de-stigmatising non-motherhood by explaining some of the inner reasons that can lead to it. Torres stated that this will be Torres’ first feature purely fiction with a professional cast. Her two previous titles were hybrid drama – documentaries.
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