Synopsis

Leonor wants to leave home but she doesn’t dare tell her mother. Estrella doesn’t want her daughter to go, but she isn’t able to keep her by her side. Mother and daughter will have to face a new time in their lives in which the world they share is wavering. “Journey to a mother’s room” is a film about the ties that tightly bind a mother and a daughter, so intimate and delicate they can easily tangle and trap them.

Director Biography

Considered an emerging talent in Spanish cinema by Variety magazine, Celia Rico Clavellino (Seville, 1982) has a degree in Audiovisual Communication and Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. As a writer and director, her career debuted with the award-winning short film Luisa is not home, starring Asunción Balaguer and Fernando Guillén. The only Spanish film at the 2012 Biennale di Venezia, the short film has also been featured in festivals such as SEMINCI, The European Film Festival of Seville, the Málaga Film Festival or the Gijón Film Festival. It also participated in the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival, won a Gaudí Award for best short film and the award from the Col·legi de Directors de Catalunya. Celia has worked as a First Assistant Director and Second Unit Director of Claudia Llosa’s latest film, Aloft (Berlin Film Festival, 2014).