🦎🩸 “Lita has feared lizards since she was a girl. Every summer, she returns to Lagartera, where her family has deep-rooted traditions. During the Corpus Christi celebration, as her grandmother dresses her, Lita uncovers the source of her fear”
💬Meet Irene Baqué (@irenebaque ), the director of MAL DE MADRE | produced by @15lfilms@producabiria | distribution by @lightsonfilm ✨
🎬 The film, part of our #Shortcat2026 is having today its Asian Premiere at @hkiffs 🪭
All the best! 💌
@cultura_cat@icec.cat #catalanfilms #shortfilms #shortcat2026
The wait. Part III. For @talkunderlight
Nine months of quiet anticipation, tiny kicks, changing seasons, and growing dreams. It’s the pause before life changes forever. It’s about the beauty, the uncertainty, and the tender strength found in the wait.
Directed by and featuring @irenebaque
Shot in 16mm by @laurentpoulain_dop
The wait. Part II. For @talkunderlight
Nine months of quiet anticipation, tiny kicks, changing seasons, and growing dreams. It’s the pause before life changes forever. It’s about the beauty, the uncertainty, and the tender strength found in the wait.
Directed by and featuring @irenebaque
Shot in 16mm by @laurentpoulain_dop
The wait. Part I. For @talkunderlight
Nine months of quiet anticipation, tiny kicks, changing seasons, and growing dreams. It’s the pause before life changes forever. It’s about the beauty, the uncertainty, and the tender strength found in the wait.
Directed by and featuring @irenebaque
Shot in 16mm by @laurentpoulain_dop
Shooting a film deep in the remote Sierra Tarahumara has been tricky, amazing, stressful and emotional. It took a lot of patience when it came to filming scripted scenes. But then it sourprised me finding the most amazing locations, set design and casting along the way that I could only have dreamt of. So improvising and incorporating them was the only way. Viva mex.
Over the weekend, we kicked off the shooting of OASIS, my first feature-length film. It’s a hybrid documentary set in Chihuahua, Mexico, featuring a powerful cast of Tarahumara women. After five years in development, we’re finally here—with a crew and five weeks ahead of us. Also slide to the end to see me on set 5 months pregnant, because that’s life. Surrounded like always by my family @15lfilms@arturpolcamprubi
Thanks to @cineicaa@icec.cat and all the markets, pitchings and labs this project has grown @docsmx@doclisboa.iff@cannes.docs
