Original title: Salve Maria
Country: Spain
Year: 2024
Genre: Fiction
Directed by: Mar Coll
Film run: 111'
Screenplay: Mar Coll, Valentina Viso
Cast: Laura Weissmahr, Oriol Pla
Language: Catalan
Maria, a promising young writer and new mother, stumbles upon a chilling headline: a French woman has drowned her 10-month-old twins in the bathtub. The gruesome act seizes Maria's imagination, becoming an obsession. Why did she do it? From that moment onwards, the specter of infanticide looms over Maria's life as a haunting possibility.
Hosted by Ane Lopez.
Ane Lopez is a curator and artist raised in Spain and based in Glasgow. She has previously worked as a programmer for Femspectives and Glasgow Short Film Festival and recently she took part in the Scottish Documentary Institute Bridging the Gap Scheme as a Creative Producer. Ane works as an Associate Programmer for Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, as a Programme Administrator for Market Gallery and she is the co-founder of Burnieshed, a newly formed artist-led initiative located at the heart of a rewilding project in rural East Perthshire, which offers a residency programme as well as opportunities for creative learning.
