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| Directed by | Pablo Trapero |
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| Story by | Pablo Trapero |
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| Cinematography | Guillermo Nieto |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista International |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
| Countries | Argentina South Korea Brazil Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
Lion's Den (Spanish:Leonera) is a 2008drama film directed, co-written, co-produced and co-edited byPablo Trapero. Addressing motherhood within the prison system, it starsMartina Gusmán,Elli Medeiros andRodrigo Santoro. The film competed in the Competition at the2008 Cannes Film Festival.
It was Argentina's official submission for the2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In Buenos Aires, the independently minded student Julia Zárate awakens in her apartment with gore everywhere, her lover Nahuel stabbed, and their shared lover Ramiro covered with blood but alive.
Julia is pregnant and is sent to a special prison wing for mothers and pregnant prisoners to await trial. She befriends Marta, a fellow prisoner who has two children and helps her to understand prison life as a mother. Julia delivers Tomás and her mother tries to kidnap him, causing a prison riot. When Ramiro accuses her of murdering Nahuel, her chances of raising Tomás fall.
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