Thief's Daughter, A

[Plays May 15-23 as part of the MSPIFF39 Redefined: A Virtual Film Festival; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org/festivals/mspiff.] Belén Funes's gritty, raw, down-to-Earth, well-acted, slice-of-life, 102-minute, 2019 film in which a hardworking, tenacious, partially-deaf, 22-year-old single Spanish mother (Greta Fernández) in Barcelona struggles to care for her six-month-old son while hoping to reunite with her baby's grape-picking father (Àlex Monner) and petitioning the courts to become the legal guardian of her eight-year-old brother (Tomás Martin ) after her irresponsible, estranged (Eduard Fernández) is released from prison and comes back into her life.
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