After a violent childbirth and a recent separation, Violeta, the film’s director and a photographer, goes through a moment of rupture in her experience of motherhood. Turning her gaze toward her own mother leads her to question how she herself was mothered and what ways of being a woman and a mother were passed on to her. Through encounters with different forms of motherhood; among them María, a sculptor and trans mother, another way of seeing herself and of thinking about her own experience opens up for Violeta.
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Violeta Rodríguez RÍos Director
First release August 8, 2026 · Produced in Peru · Original title Donde nacen las sombras
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Peru
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Original title
Donde nacen las sombras
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
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Peru · August 8, 2026
Premiere · Festival de Cine de Lima
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