Madres de luna
2018 · 15m · España
Directed by Alicia Albares
Genres: drama, experimental, fantasy
Tones: melancholic, mythic, surreal
Four women from different parts of the world share a bond through the voice of a very special baby: a girl who lived in wombs but did not survive. The unborn narrator recounts past lives while fighting for a primary goal: birth.
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A narrator who never drew breath telling four women's stories across time and geography—it's the kind of premise that makes you sit up and say 'wait, how is this even going to work?' and then Albares actually *pulls it off*, turning grief and motherhood into something genuinely disorienting and new.
The film locates itself in a lineage of experimental maternal cinema and mythic storytelling, with careful attention to how voice can carry presence across multiple bodies and temporalities; the restraint in not over-explaining the conceit shows real formal discipline.
What elevates this beyond concept is the decision to let the unborn narrator's voice remain almost conversational—intimate rather than ethereal—which makes the surrealism feel earned rather than imposed, grounding the fantastical premise in something tactile and human.