MAILIN

CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY

Mailin tells her daughter a bedtime story, a metaphor unfolding as the protagonist searches to recover the memory of her past. Through a collage of archives and animated compositions, the story emerges of a girl who, for more than 15 years, suffered the abuses of a priest that the justice system in Argentina has just set free.

Production country: ARGENTINA | ROMANIA | FRANCE
Produced by HANA FILMS | deFilm | IKKI FILMS
Sales agent: THE PARTY FILM SALES
With the support of ROMANIAN FILM CENTER | IDFA BERTHA FUND CLASSIC FOR PRODUCTION | METROPOLITAN FUND OF ARTS BA | VISIONS DU RÉEL INDUSTRY AWARD | INMAAT FOUNDATION | SCAM – BROUILLON D’UN RÊVE DOCUMENTAIRE WRITING GRANT | 2|35 POST-PRODUCTION COMPANY AWARD | SACEM | GUADALAJARA FILM FESTIVAL INDUSTRY AWARD | AIDE AU CODÉVELOPPEMENT INTERNATIONAL | CNC – AIDE AUX CINÉMAS DU MONDE
Running time: 89 min
Genre: Documentary
Original language: Spanish
Released: 2025

Director and writer: MARÍA SILVIA ESTEVE
Producer: MARÍA SILVIA ESTEVE | RADU STANCU | CRISTINA HANEȘ | ALEJANDRA LOPEZ | ESTEBAN CUENCA

Agora Docs in Progress (Thessaloniki, Greece) | 2024
GuadaLAjara Film Festival Industry Award (L.A., USA) | 2024
Visions du Réel Industry (Nyon, Switzerland) | 2022
IDFA Project Space (Amsterdam, Netherlands) | 2021
IDFA Summer School (Amsterdam, Netherlands) | 2019
Biennale of Young Art (Buenos Aires, Argentina) | 2019
IDFAcademy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) | 2018
Gender Lab MICGénero (DF, Mexico) | 2018

Industry Award | GUADALAJARA FILM FESTIVAL | 2024
The Party Film Sales Award to the project with the highest international potential | VISIONS DU RÉEL INDUSTRY | 2022
TËNK Post-Production Award | VISIONS DU RÉEL INDUSTRY | 2022
AMMAC Award for Best Editing | DOCS BARCELONA | 2026

IDFA | 2025
Goteborg film Festival | 2026
Oslo Dokumentarkino Film Festival | 2026
LuxFilmFest | 2026
International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights | 2026
Thessaloniki International Film Festival | 2026
One World Prague Film Festival | 2026
El Tudo Verdade Film Festival | 2026
Festival International de Cine en Guadalajara | 2026
ZagrebDox Film Festival | 2026
Unarchive Found Footage Fest | 2026
Docs Barcelona Film Festival | 2026
DocAviv Film Festival | 2026

María Silvia Esteve’s first feature documentary film “SILVIA” was selected at IDFA in 2018. Her last two short films received accolades such as Pardino d’Oro Award at Locarno IFF in 2021 for “CRIATURA”, and a world premiere at 2022 Cannes Quinzaine des Réalisateurs for “THE SPIRAL”. In 2024-2025, her video installation “CORTEX” was exhibited at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris, a landmark institution for contemporary photographic art.

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