Maternal(2019)

Maternal is an Argentine drama following Lu and Fati, two teenage mothers living in a religious shelter in Buenos Aires. When Sister Paola arrives to take her final vows, the girls' pregnancies force her to confront an unexpected moral crisis. The film explores the collision between religious devotion and the messy realities of young motherhood, set against the backdrop of a conservative institution designed to shelter vulnerable girls. As Paola's commitment to her faith deepens, she grapples with questions of compassion, judgment, and what it truly means to serve others. The shelter becomes a pressure cooker where personal convictions clash with human need, revealing the complicated bonds that form between women in extraordinary circumstances.