Nuestras Madres
It may seem puzzling that a film about a young man’s agonizing, relentless search for his father should be called Nuestras Madres (Our Mothers). Yet as we come to realize in César Díaz’s Caméra d’Or-winning debut feature, the two are inversely linked. The key point of Nuestras Madres, in fact, is that the absence of a father can loom so large that it obscures the mother’s presence. It is only towards the end of Díaz’s nuanced, dexterously acted, and at times very sombre character study that the bond between mother and son can finally reconfigure itself, its importance fully acknowledged.
The protagonist of is Ernesto (Armando Espitia), a forensic anthropologist investigating mass graves
