2022 | Mexico, Luxembourg, Poland, France, Chile | Fiction

Blanquita

  • Spanish English 94 mins
  • Director | Fernando Guzzoni
  • Writer | Fernando Guzzoni
  • Producer | Yves Darondeau, Pascal Guerrin, Giancarlo Nasi, Emmanuel Priou, Donato Rotunno, Beata Rzezniczek

STATUS: Released

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Blanca returns to the children’s home from which she escaped when she was a teenager. Now she returns as a prodigal daughter asking Cura Manuel to receive her once more. This return is different, she has a small daughter in her arms and an uncertain past on her shoulders. A network of child prostitution, involving businessmen and politicians, accidentally puts the focus on Manuel’s home. Blanca and Manuel become the focus of press and public attention: interviews and an intense judicial process leaves them confronted with the secrets of their particular relationship. Blanca becomes the victim, the key witness, the protected one. People had divided between those who believe them and those who think that they are part of a political plot. Blanca feels the stress of repeating over and over again the torture to which she was subjected. The pressure increases as a new judge, who coldly questions her testimony, takes charge of the case. Manuel, desperate, tries to reverse the fall of his protégé by crossing his own limits. Blanca, besieged by everyone, wants to run away and forget her torturous present. However, dreams of a new life are held back by the betrayal of former defenders.

Childhood Struggle Violence Youth Teenagers