A MOTHER'S EMBRACE

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A firefighter must fight through her own traumatic past to escape the sinister residents of a retirement home in this cosmic-horror.

In 1996 a young firefighter and her team are called to help a senior’s home that is at risk of flood during the worst storm to ever hit Rio de Janeiro. As they try their best to evacuate the elderly, the firefighter soon finds that something sinister is lurking beneath the surface, and the residents are not as innocent as they first seemed. Entangled in their web, she must fight through her own traumatic past to escape. A twisted & original new Brazilian horror from Cristian Ponce.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Beyond Fest 2024
Sitges Film Festival 2024
Imagine Fantastic Film Festival 2024
Weird Weekender 2024
Monsters Fantastic Film Festival 2024
Glasgow Fright Fest 2025
Darkness In The Fields - Folk Horror Film Festival 2025

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Cristian Ponce is a screenwriter and film director. In 2017, he released his first animated horror project, THE KRILIAN FREQUENCY, which was acquired by Netflix. In 2020, HISTORY OF THE OCCULT, his first feature film as a director, premiered at several festivals around the world, reaping multiple awards, as well as great critical and public success. During the following year, the film was incorporated worldwide into the catalogues of Netflix, Filmin, and HBO Max. Ponce's latest projects include HOUR OF THE SOURCERER, which participated in Pitchbox 2022 at Sitges; a film version of THE KIRLIAN FREQUENCY, and his second full-length feature, A MOTHER'S EMBRACE, produced by Lupa Filmes from Brazil.