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 ...
“Mailin” is Esteve’s sophomore documentary feature after “Silvia,” which premiered at IDFA in 2018; her short “Criatura” was awarded in Locarno in 2021. Already, this new project has gathered industry ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...