In Malaga, five mothers whose babies were stolen, have spent their lives searching for a truth that never came. Convinced that their children did not die at birth, they waged a personal and collective struggle for years, confronting institutional silence and the erosion of time. Today, five decades later, they no longer seek proof or answers, but they need their story to be heard. As the daughter of one of these women, the director brings an intimate perspective that transforms the film into a space for remembrance, healing, and solidarity. A poignant portrait of grief without a body, of an inherited wound, and of the urgent need to remember.
Judith Naess (Málaga, 1998) is a photographer and visual artist. She studied at EFTI (School of Photography and Center for the Image), where she developed a practice situated between documentary imagery and visual research. Her work unfolds as an ongoing inquiry through the image. She is drawn to the archive, intimate narratives, and the intersections between the personal and the poetic, the intimate and the collective. Beginning with the everyday, her practice seeks to reveal latent tensions around the body, the family, the territory, and the past. Through visual beauty, she transforms pain into visibility, shifting it from the private sphere into the public space. She proposes a poetic and political re-reading of reality, in which the image operates as a device for resistance and symbolic reconstruction. She is currently preparing the transition to feature filmmaking, expanding her tools to further interrogate reality, memory, and systems of representation.
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Alba Fortes (Málaga, 1997) holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid and completed the Advanced Master’s Degree in Audiovisual Production at ESCAC. She has developed her career across multiple roles within the production department in both fiction and advertising, working through all stages of the process - from development to shooting and post-production. She currently alternates between projects as an executive producer - Ser un hombre (2025), a short film awarded at festivals such as Almagro, Octubre Corto and Abycine—and as a production coordinator in advertising campaigns for brands including Adidas. Alongside her production work, she has written and directed her own films, including El Oficio (2024), selected at festivals such as Málaga and Sevilla. She has a strong interest in development, financing, and distribution, combining creative sensitivity with a solid technical and production background.