Forever Your Maternal Animal

Plot

After years studying in Europe, Elsa returns to Costa Rica to reunite with her family. She finds her younger sister living alone in the family home, growing increasingly distant and reclusive, as if slipping into a world of her own. Their parents, meanwhile, are absorbed in their own lives. Her father drifts through a series of affairs, while her mother is immersed in republishing the erotic poems of her youth, neither fully grasping the urgency of the situation. Elsa’s return draws the three women into a confrontation with what still binds them, despite everything.

About Forever Your Maternal Animal

Forever Your Maternal Animal (Spanish: Siempre soy tu animal materno) is a 2026 drama film written and directed by Valentina Maurel. It stars Daniela Marín Navarro, Mariangel Villegas, Marina de Tavira, and Reinaldo Amién Gutiérrez. The film had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of the 79th Cannes Film Festival on 16 May 2026, where its female ensemble won the section's Best Actress prize.

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