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.

Laura Weissmahr recently won the Goya Award for Best New Actress for her role in Salve Maria

Director – Mar Coll
Cast – Laura Weissmahr, Oriol Pla, Giannina Fruttero, Belén Cruz, Karim Belayane, Magali Heu, Julie
Maes, Oscar Walls, Sam Avtaev
Genre – Drama
Duration – 111 min
Nationality – Spain
Year – 2024
Language – Catalan with English subtitles

Director Bio

Mar Coll is a Barcelona-based screenwriter and film director. For her first feature, Tres dies amb la familía (2009), she won the Goya and Gaudí Awards for Best Director. For her second film, We All Want What’s Best for Her (2013), she received nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Gaudí Awards. Her third feature, screening here, is Salve Maria. It premiered at the 77th Locarno Film Festival.