The Miami Film Festival has announced the the online world premiere of the Colombian-Argentine co-production A Mother / Una madre, directed by emerging Colombian filmmaker Diógenes Cuevas, after the film’s intended world premiere at the 37th edition of the festival in March was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The film will premiere on Friday, May 29 and will be available to stream worldwide for a 72-hour period on the festival’s Vimeo on Demand channel. The premiere will be accompanied by a live online conversation with the filmmakers.
“Cuevas is a compelling, distinctive new voice that signifies another strong decade ahead for Latin American cinema,” said Miami Film Festival director Jaie Laplante. “We programmed his debut film A Mother because of its clear, well-executed vision of love under the siege of a debilitatingly stressful situation, and we are thrilled to be able to proceed with our plans to present the film, this time via online platforms.”
A Mother centers on Alejandro (Jose Restrepo), the younger of two brothers. After the death of his father, he embarks on an impulsive mission to liberate his mother Dora (Marcela Valencia) from a rural mental asylum, where he believes she has been unjustly imprisoned for too many years. Alejandro and Dora travel through the lush mountain forests of Colombia on a journey of madness, love and loss.
A Mother was nominated for three awards at the 2020 Miami Film Festival — HBO Ibero-american Feature Film Award, Jordan Ressler First Feature Award, and the Zeno Mountain Award. The film is a co-production of Antorcha Films SAS (Colombia) and Pucará Cine SRL (Argentina). Before writing and directing A Mother, Cuevas served as assistant director on two important Colombian productions at the end of the past decade – Catalina Arroyave’s SXSW-debuting Days of the Whale and Jhonny Hendrix’s Candelaria.
Tickets to view the online premiere are $13 for the general public and $10 for Miami Film Festival members and can be pre-purchase at https://miamifilmfestival.com/a-mother-online-world-premiere/.
