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Viaje al cuarto de una madre


Viaje al cuarto de una madre

Celia Rico Clavellino - Spain


Synopsis

Leonor wants to leave home, but doesn't dare tell her mother. Estrella does not want her to leave, but she cannot keep her by her side. Mother and daughter have to face this new stage of life in which their common world is turned upside down. Celia Rico's film is eloquent in its silences about these delicate moments when the love between mother and daughter is revealed in the fact of knowing how to move away, how to let go.



Film details

Type : Fiction
Duration : 94 min
Year of production : 2018
Country : Spain
Screenwriter : Celia Rico Clavellino
Editor : Fernando Franco
Director : Celia Rico Clavellino
Production company : Arcadia Motion Pictures, Amorós Producciones, Pecado





Celia Rico Clavellino

Celia Rico Clavellino was born in Seville (1982) and lives in Barcelona. As a writer-director, her career began with the award-winning short film Luisa is not home. Selected for the Venice Biennale in 2012, it has travelled to more than a hundred festivals and won the Gaudí Award for Best Short Film. Viaje al cuarto de una madre (Journey to a Mother's Room) is his first feature film. It was released internationally and received 4 nominations for the Goya 2018. In August 2022, Celia Rico finished shooting her second film Los pequeños amores (Little Loves).