Carla Quílez is fourteen years old and has been the great surprise of the closing gala of the 70th edition of the San Sebastián festival by becoming the youngest actress to win the Silver Shell for Best Performance (along with Frenchman Paul Kircher ex aequo) and thus make film history. He has also achieved it with what has been the first film of his career and which will hit Spanish theaters on November 18.
the motherly It is the second film by Pilar Palomero who, with her first feature, has already triumphed at the Goyas. And now everything indicates that her successor could follow the same path as that precious the girls.
In it, Carla is 14 years old and is a defiant and rebellious young woman who skips class and spends hours with her friend Efraín. She lives with her young single mother in an old roadside diner but, when it is discovered that she is five months pregnant, she enters a center for minor mothers where she shares her daily life with other young women in her situation.
The story captures how they face together this new world of adults for which they have not had time to prepare. Although it has been described as an ensemble film, its lead is brought to life by Quílez, who was cast in the role after the casting team found her on Instagram.
To this social network, the Barcelonan, then thirteen years old, I uploaded videos dancing, since it is one of the passions of the young woman, who also takes classes. However, it was not until after three months of castings that she became part of the cast, along with Ángela Cervantes (whom you may have seen before in girls).
“There is no time or money to thank my mother for everything she has done for me”, Quílez said on stage at the film festival while also remembering to dedicate the award for “female warriors and fighters” like those in the film. See you at the cinema in November.
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