Overview

• The Argentine Film Academy named the film as the country’s submission for the Academy Award for International Feature and for the Goya Awards, with the announcement delivered by Graciela Borges.
• Dolores Fonzi wrote, directed and stars, adapting Ana Correa’s book Somos Belén with co-writer Laura Paredes.
• The story is inspired by a 2014 case in Tucumán in which a young woman was accused after a miscarriage, later released in 2016 and definitively acquitted in 2017.
• The film opened in Argentine theaters on September 18, and a streaming release on Prime Video is planned with no date yet announced.
• The selection prevailed over recent Argentine titles including Homo Argentum, La mujer de la fila and Algo nuevo, algo viejo, algo prestado.