Las Mantenidas Sin Sueños (film)

Kept and Dreamless (Spanish: Las Mantenidas Sin Sueños, lit. 'The Kept Without Dreams') is a 2005 Argentinian drama film directed by Vera Fogwill and Martín De Salvo. Starring Fogwill and Lucía Snieg, the film focuses on the struggles of Eugenia, a 10-year-old precocious child, and the bond with her cocaine-addicted, unemployed mother Florencia, as she tries to find a job for her when they discover Florencia is pregnant. The film also stars Mirta Busnelli, Mía Maestro, Edda Díaz, Elsa Berenguer and Gastón Pauls. Shown at the American Film Institute's Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland, on September 24, 2005, the film explores mother-daughter relationships in a reminiscent way of the work of Spanish director Pedro Sanchez.