The lingering, shape-shifting trauma of childhood abuse is expertly handled in Maria Silvia Esteve’s lyrical documentary Mailin, whose powerful narrative and sensitive craft choices serve to spotlight ...
Speaking with Variety ahead of the festival, the filmmaker recalls first seeing Mailin crying on television as the interviewer asked her intrusive details about her abuse at the hands of her local ...
07/10/2024 - In this unsettling film, the title character’s past and present begin to converge as the trial of priest Carlos José, who abused her for 15 years, unfolds Thus, Mailin goes back in time ...
Documentaries can reach places justice cannot: this is the credo of Argentinian writer-director-producer María Silvia Esteve, whose latest project “Mailin” won the 2|35 Post-Production Company Award ...
Palestinian director Hana Elias’ “If These Stones Could Talk,” which follows a Palestinian man’s return to his homeland to restore his family’s ancestral garden, and Argentine filmmaker María Silvia ...
EXCLUSIVE: France’s The Party Film Sales has boarded sales on Maria Silvia Esteve’s documentary Mailin. The film was selected for the international competition at International Documentary Film ...
One day, almost a decade ago, Argentinian filmmaker María Silvia Esteve ("Silvia") turned on the television and saw a woman talk about her fight for justice against the priest who sexually abused her ...