THE DAUGHTER

LA HIJA

By Manuel MARTÍN CUENCA

FILM FACTORY ENTERTAINMENT - as SALES

Drama - Completed 2021

THE DAUGHTER is a dramatic thriller by director Manuel Martín Cuenca (Cannibal, The Motive) that explores the limits to our right to parenthood. The film features Javier Gutiérrez (Marshland) and Patricia López Arnaiz (While at War) and is co-produced by MOD (While at War, Biutiful and Agora).

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2021
Contemporary World Cinema
San Sebastian FF 2021
Out of Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Drama, Thriller
    • Countries
    • SPAIN
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 122 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Manuel MARTÍN CUENCA
    • Producer(s)
    • Mod PRODUCCIONES, La Loma BLANCA
    • Synopsis
    • Irene is a fifteen-year-old who lives in a center for juvenile offenders. She just got pregnant and is determined to turn her life around with the help of Javier, an educator at the center.

      Javier offers her to secretly come live with him and his wife Adela in the house they have in a remote and rugged spot in the mountains so she can hide and comfortably carry out her pregnancy. The only condition is that in exchange, she agrees to give them the baby she is carrying in her womb. This feeble pact will be put in jeopardy when Irene starts to feel like the life growing inside her belongs to her.