Film

Forever Your Maternal Animal

2026 · 1h 40m · Drama

IMDb

5.9

After years studying in Europe, Elsa returns to Costa Rica to reunite with her family. She finds her younger sister living alone in the family home, growing increasingly distant and reclusive, as if slipping into a world of her own. Their parents, meanwhile, are absorbed in their own lives. Her father drifts through a series of affairs, while her mother is immersed in republishing the erotic poems of her youth, neither fully grasping the urgency of the situation. Elsa’s return draws the three women into a confrontation with what still binds them, despite everything.

Daniela Marín Navarro

Elsa

Marina de Tavira

Isabel

Mariangel Villegas

Amalia

Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez

Nahuel

• Valentina MaurelDirector · Screenplay
• Benoît RolandProducer
• Grégoire DebaillyProducer
• Nicolás WongDirector of Photography
• Bertrand ConardEditor

'Forever Your Maternal Animal': first trailer for Valentina Maurel’s Cannes film

Release date

September 30, 2026

Status

Released

Original language

Spanish

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Drama