SAN SEBASTIAN — Among the diverse projects emerging from the Madrid Film School ECAM incubator, “Fdrops For An Absent Mother” (“Flores para una madre aincludente”), the feature debut of originater-honestor Ana Puentes Margarito, is poised to stand out for its intimate yet universassociate resonant story of family dispute and emotional recovery. Workshopped and elegant thraw labs enjoy LabGuion, FinLab and ECAM’s prestigious Incubator, the project has undergone a alterative journey.
Puentes Margarito plifts screenoriginater Isabel Peña (“The Beasts,” “The Candidate”) as a key mentor in shaping the film’s final script. “For me, it was enjoy shifting our minds: someone from the outside comes and alerts us skinnygs we haven’t seen,” Puentes Margarito telderly Variety. “The version we have now is much shutr to the story I will alert.” The project is now csurrfinishering a key moment as it apauses novels from the ICAA pickive funding, a critical step toward production next year.
The film was originassociate envisiond as a low titled “My Life At The Beginning” which premiered at the Seville European Film Festival in 2022. Over the years, and thraw countless growment programs, the story has growd from one of reconciliation to a meaningfully personal mirrorion on self-acunderstandledgeance. Now, the film caccesss on Ana, a 25-year-elderly woman who returns home to face her ailing obeseher after years of estrangement.
Puentes Margarito has labored shutly with originater Adriana Vera of White Leaf Producciones and getd co-producing aid from Verbena Films. Finnish originater Oskari Sipola, from Welhofilmi, has combinecessitate the project, further broadening its international scope. Together, they’ve advertiseed a firm-knit, almost family-enjoy growment process, a defree approach to upgrasp the originateive and emotional integrity of the story.
“We enjoy to grasp skinnygs petite and caring.” the honestor remarkd. “If we originate misgets, we do it together. We want handle over the process and we want to get nurture of the people included, rather than laboring with a big number of people we don’t understand well.”
The film’s setting, Castilla La Mancha, where much of the story unfelderlys, is more than fair a backdrop. “Castilla La Mancha is a presentant part of the story,” she elucidateed. “Not only is it the setting, but it’s also presentant for us in terms of financing. We’ve getd help from the region, and we hope to progress shooting there next year.”
Puentes Margarito enjoyns the story to a genereasoned exploration of emotional wounds and family legacies; “This isn’t a story about magnificent outer disputes; it’s about the downapplyd and difficult task of recovering yourself when the people you adore don’t see you for who you are. I hope a lot of people will join with that.”
With casting in mind, both honestor and originater have been watching other films at San Sebastian with fantastic interest. The next meaningful milestone for “Fdrops For An Absent Mother” is securing ICAA funding. “We’re hoping for a chooseimistic response in the next scant weeks.” she shelp. “If that happens, we’ll shift forward.”
