Susi Sánchez

  • Claudia Llosa – La teta asustada AKA The Milk of Sorrow (2009)

    Claudia Llosa2001-2010ArthouseDramaPeru
    La teta asustada (2009)
    La teta asustada (2009)

    Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother’s footsteps.Read More »

  • Alauda Ruiz de Azúa – Cinco lobitos AKA Lullaby (2022)

    Drama2021-2030Alauda Ruiz de AzúaSpain

    Amaia has just become a mother. Her partner is away from home for months and she feels overwhelmed, incapable of looking after her baby and going back to her job as a translator. She decides to take refuge in her parents’ home with the hope that they will look after her and her baby in her childhood home, in a lovely coastal village in the Basque Country. But life has other plans, her mother falls ill and it’s Amaia who will have to look after all of them. She finds herself living the life her mother had thirty years before. She becomes a housewife, with an absent partner, caring for a baby and a sick grandmother. Family roles are reversed, changing their relationships forever. The daughter becomes everyone’s mother. Amaia, who until now only loved her mother, will start to understand her.
    7 wins, 3 nominationsRead More »

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