April's Daughter

April's Daughters (Spanish: Las hijas de abril) is a 2017 Mexican drama film directed by Michel Franco.^[1] It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize in that section.^[2][3][4]

April's Daughters
Film poster
Directed by	Michel Franco
Written by	Michel Franco
Produced by	Michel Franco Lorenzo Vigas Moises Zonana
Starring	Emma Suárez
Cinematography	Yves Cape
Edited by	Jorge Weisz
Production companies	Lucia Films Trebol Stone
Distributed by	GEM Entertainment
Release date	20 May 2017 (2017-05-20) (Cannes)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

Plot

Valeria (Ana Valeria Becerril), 17, is pregnant. She lives in Puerto Vallarta, with Clara (Joanna Larequi), her half sister, who is calm, but lives with depression and is overweight. Valeria does not want her mother, April (Emma Suárez), who has been absent for a long time, to know about her pregnancy but, due to economic limitations and the overwhelming responsibility of having a baby at home, Clara decides to call her mother. April arrives with a great desire to see her daughters, but we soon see why Valeria did not want to get in touch with her. It is "the story of an adult woman who refuses to feel 'overtaken' by her own daughters in generational terms, without realising that she has been left behind in more important aspects, such as emotional and psychological, among others."^[5]

Cast

• Emma Suárez as Abril
• Ana Valeria Becerril as Valeria
• Hernán Mendoza as Gregorio
• Ivan Cortes as Jorge
• Enrique Arrizon as Mateo
• Joanna Larequi as Clara