María (and Everybody Else)(2016)

María (and Everybody Else) is a Spanish drama following a woman who has spent two decades as her family's backbone. After her mother's death at fifteen, María raised her father and siblings, building her identity around duty and control. Now thirty-five, she's never prioritized her own life—until her father announces he's marrying his nurse. The shock forces María to confront an uncomfortable truth: she's sacrificed her own happiness for a family that's moving on without her. Caught between resentment and the need to let go, María must finally ask herself what she wants. The film explores how caregiving can become a cage, and what it takes to reclaim your own story when you've spent your life writing everyone else's.