Loving Martha

    Amando a Martha

    • Daniela López
    • Colombia, Argentina
    • 2022
    • 75 min
    • World Premiere
    • Luminous

    When director Daniela López was just about to start living with her partner, she received a worrying letter from her grandmother Martha. Martha had noticed that Daniela’s boyfriend is very domineering, and verbally violent. Having herself been subjected to psychological terror in a bad marriage for 39 years, Martha wants a very different life for her granddaughter. If only there had been someone there to warn her when she was young and naive.

    It seems like the time is ripe for making the film Martha first proposed many years before, dealing with how her husband Amando made her life hell. What looks at first to be the story of Martha’s life, explored in intimate conversations between grandmother and granddaughter, gradually expands into a complex family drama in which the film project itself becomes a divisive issue.

    In voice-over, López explains just how divided the family is, and that not everyone wants to be in her documentary. Increasingly, the subject of the film becomes the making of the film itself, and the way different generations deal with trauma and loyalty.

    Nominated for IDFA Award for Best First Feature

    Credits

    • 75 min
    • color
    • DCP
    • Spoken languages: Spanish
    • Subtitles in: English
    Director
    Daniela López
    Production
    Sara Nanclares for Ruido
    Executive producer
    Sara Nanclares for Ruido
    Co-production
    Paula Zyngierman for Maravillacine, Señal Colombia for Señal Colombia
    Cinematography
    Mario Quintero, Daniela López

    IDFA history

    2022
    World Premiere
    Luminous
    2021
    IDFA Project Space: Rough cut
    2019
    IDFAcademy Summer School Script
    2018
    Supported with €5000 for Classic: Development

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