An official selection of the Cannes Film Festival and Colombia's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 89th Academy Awards, Alias María is the sophomore work from director José Luis Rugeles (García), which unflinchingly shines a light on Colombia's armed conflict, through the eyes of a young, pregnant soldier. The films follows Maria, a 13-year-old guerilla soldier, is given the mission to bring a commander’s newborn baby to safety in a neighboring town. But nobody knows the secret that she is pregnant with her own baby. Despite the prohibitions against it, Maria decides to keep the baby and is forced to run away.
ALIAS MARÍA
A film by José Luis Rugeles
(Colombia/Argentina/France, 2015, 92 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
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