"Siempre soy tu animal materno"
BELGIUM | FRANCE | MEXICO
108 minutes | 2026
After years studying in Europe, Elsa returns to Costa Rica to reunite with her family. She finds her younger sister living alone in the family home, growing increasingly distant and reclusive, as if slipping into a world of her own. Their parents, meanwhile, are absorbed in their own lives. Her father drifts through a series of affairs, while her mother is immersed in republishing the erotic poems of her youth, neither fully grasping the urgency of the situation. Elsa’s return draws the three women into a confrontation with what still binds them, despite everything.
2026 • Un Certain Regard
Nominee
DANIELA MARÍN NAVARRO
MARIANGEL MONTERO
MARINA DE TAVIRA
REINALDO AMIÉN
A FILM BY
Valentina Maurel
SCREENPLAY
Valentina Maurel
PRODUCERS
Benoît Roland
Grégoire Debailly
CO-PRODUCERS
Nicolás Celis
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Nicolás Andrés
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Bertrand Conard
COSTUME DESIGNER
Julian Gomez
MAKE-UP ARTIST
Victoria Cisneros Azofeifa
EDITOR
Paula Carvajal Avilia
SOUND EDITOR
Erick Vargas
SOUND MIXER
Benoît Biral
A PRODUCTION BY
WRONG MEN
IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH
GÉKO FILM
PIMIENTA
With the support of the Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Belgian Federal Government's Tax Shelter
In partnership with Taxshelter.be and ING
With the support of Creative Europe MEDIA and European Film Promotion
In co-production with RTBF (Belgian Television), Shelter Prod, Proximus, Be TV and Orange