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Sunday, June 14
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

641 D St NW, Washington, DC 20004

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A Child of My Own

Film Language

Spanish

Director

Maite Alberdi

Producers

Sandra Godínez, Carla González Vargas, Maximiliano Sanguine

Editor

Carolina Siraqyan

Co-Editor

Carolina Siraqyan

Cinematographers

Sergio Armstrong A.C.C., Ignacio Miranda Hiriart

Driven by an overwhelming desire for motherhood—and the relentless expectations of those around her—Alejandra begins to fabricate a pregnancy, setting in motion a deception that grows ever more intricate and impossible to sustain. What starts as a private act of longing unfolds into a months-long performance before her husband, family, and community, blurring the line between belief and illusion.

As the lie expands, so too do its consequences, culminating in a public scandal that fractures the narrative she has carefully constructed. Moving beyond sensational headlines, the film probes the emotional terrain beneath Alejandra’s choices, revealing the pressures, grief, and social forces that shaped them.

Through a striking interplay of reenactment and testimony, the story gradually shifts perspective—inviting us not only to question what happened, but to consider how truth itself is constructed, and whose version of it we choose to believe.

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Maite Alberdi

Director, A Child of My Own

Maite Alberdi is an Academy Award–nominated Chilean filmmaker and the first Chilean documentary director ever nominated for an Oscar®. She made her feature debut with THE LIFEGUARD (2011), followed by TEA TIME (2015), which won more than a dozen international awards and was nominated for a Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film.

In 2016, she released the short film I AM NOT FROM HERE, nominated for a European Film Award, along with her feature THE GROWN-UPS, which received 10 international awards. Her breakthrough film THE MOLE AGENT premiered at Sundance in 2020 and went on to earn Academy Award, Goya, Ariel, and Platino nominations for Best Documentary.

Her 2023 documentary THE ETERNAL MEMORY was nominated for an Academy Award®, won the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film, and received the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Her 2024 feature IN HER PLACE was nominated for a Goya Award.

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