April's Daughter

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April's Daughters
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Directed by Michel Franco
Written byMichel Franco
Produced byMichel Franco
Lorenzo Vigas
Moises Zonana
Starring Emma Suárez
CinematographyYves Cape
Edited by Jorge Weisz
Production
companies
Lucia Films
Trebol Stone
Distributed byGEM Entertainment
Release date
  • 20 May 2017 (2017-05-20)(Cannes)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

April's Daughters (Spanish : Las hijas de abril) is a 2017 Mexican drama film directed by Michel Franco. [1] It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize in that section. [2] [3] [4]

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Plot

Valeria (Ana Valeria Becerril), 17, is pregnant. She lives in Puerto Vallarta, with Clara (Joanna Larequi), her half sister, who is calm, but lives with depression and is overweight. Valeria does not want her mother, April (Emma Suárez), who has been absent for a long time, to know about her pregnancy but, due to economic limitations and the overwhelming responsibility of having a baby at home, Clara decides to call her mother. April arrives with a great desire to see her daughters, but we soon see why Valeria did not want to get in touch with her. It is "the story of an adult woman who refuses to feel 'overtaken' by her own daughters in generational terms, without realising that she has been left behind in more important aspects, such as emotional and psychological, among others." [5]

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