Sinopsis
Fiction. Ama portraits the myth of maternity telling the story of many women exposed to loneliness during the motherhood. After several warnings, Ade throws her friend Pepa out of her house, so she ends up on the street, homeless, with Leila, her six-year-old daughter. With no one to help them, Pepa and Leila will fight alone to find a place to live. Facing every obstacle, they will undertake a search and a rapprochement within their previously practically non-existent and distant relationship. A new bond will be created between mother and daughter, where mistakes and the end of idealizing will happen.
Júlia de Paz Solvas began her film studies at the age of 18 at the prestigious ESCAC University (Barcelona), specializing in film directing. As a final career project, Júlia made the short film Ama, seeking to represent motherhood from a point of view totally free of common mythology. With this short film she has toured Festivals such as New Films New Directors (Portugal), Directed by women (Spain), VisuElles Film Festival (Canada), Bendita tú Female Short Film (Argentina), FESCIGU (Guadalajara) and the Pávez Awards festival (Toledo). She has received awards such as the Videolab Award for Best Spanish Short Film at the Mecal Festival, the Best Actress Award at the Ávila Film Festival and at the Cortogenia Festival in Madrid. In 2018, at the latest edition of Ibicine, Ibiza Film Festival, she obtained the La Dalia Films Special Award, consisting in the adaptation and production of the short film into a feature film. Ama, was shot during the pandemic in March and June 2020.
Video presented by the film's director Júlia de Paz Solvas.
Sala Berlanga de la fundación SGAE
Spanish Female Authors Competition
Year of Production: 2021
Running Time: 88’
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Director: Júlia de Paz Solvas
Cast: Tamara Casellas, Leire Marin Vara, Estefanía de los Santos, Ana Turpin, Manuel de Blas, Pablo Gómez, Chema del Barco, Maria Gregorio, Vasileios Papatheocharis, Carmen Ibeas and Erin Gallego
Producer: Silvia Melero
Production Companies: La Dalia Films and AMA Movie A.I.E
International Sales: Castelao Pictures S.L
Main Festivals and Awards: Winner of the Feroz Puerta Oscura Award at the 2021 Malaga Festival and the Silver Biznaga for Best Actress for Tamara Casellas and participates at the San Sebastián International Festival in the Made in Spain Section.
