Cindy Teperman, part of Infinity Hill, behind Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee “Argentina, 1985,” has come on board “Why Did You Come Back Every Summer?” (“Por qué volvías cada verano?”), the latest feature in development from Argentine director Lorena Muñoz (“I Am Gilda”).
Set for its market debut at the upcoming 2026 Málaga Festival Fund & Co-Production Event (MAFF), the project teams Teperman with Argentine producers Delfina Montecchia, Tomás Eloy Muñoz Lázaro and Valeria Bistagnino, alongside Spain’s Anna Saura. The producers will use Málaga to seek an additional co-producer and an international sales agent.
Teperman’s CT Producciones and Muñoz Lázaro and Bistagnino’s Mostra Cine previously partnered on “The Freshly Cut Grass,” produced alongside Martin Scorsese.
“Why Did You Come Back Every Summer?” is being developed as an Argentina-Spain co-production by CT Producciones and Mostra Cine with Madrid-based Atrece Creaciones, led by Anna Saura, a rising prpducer-director star in Spain who will world premiere at Málaga her first feature as a director, “The Kid in the Photo,” a knowing, intimate doc feature portrait of father Carlos Saura, the great Spanish director.
CT operates as part of Infinity Hill, one of Argentina’s most international production banners in recent years. Collectively, the companies’ credits span festival and arthouse titles including “Puan,” “Animal,” “Kill the Jockey,” “The Woman in the Line,” Sundance 2025 title “The Virgin of Quarry Lake” and “The Freshly Cut Grass.”
Adapted from Argentine writer Belén López Peiró’s book “Por qué volvías cada verano?” which recounts the sexual abuse she suffered as a child, the screenplay is co-written by Muñoz and Argentine journalist-author Josefina Licitra. The story follows Lourdes, who, as a child, was sent every summer to her mother’s rural hometown — a place framed as calm and family-friendly, yet haunted by the abuse inflicted by her uncle, a respected local police commissioner.
Years later, when she decides to report him, she must confront not only her aggressor but also a community primed to blame her for speaking out, and a slow, hostile judicial system that demands she be the perfect victim.
“When I read the novel, I understood that I was not just facing a story of abuse, but an act of transformation,” Muñoz said. “Belén did more than denounce: she wrote, and turned pain into a form of resistance. As a director, I feel the responsibility to honor that courage with a film that does not re-victimize, but listens, that looks with humanity and invites reflection.”
Muñoz is best known in the market for her 2016 biopic “I Am Gilda,” toplined by Natalia Oreiro, based on the life of late cumbia singer Gilda — a breakout local hit that went on to travel internationally, including a U.S. deal with Paradiso Distribution.
In development, “Why Did You Come Back Every Summer?” is targeting a second quarter 2027 shoot. Early backing includes the Carolina Foundation Development Program, an Ibermedia development grant, the Guadalajara Coproduction Meeting, the Iberseries Pitching Program and Málaga’s own MAFF platform.
Mostra Cine has teamed with Atrece Contenidos to produce “The Kid in the Photo. Carlos Saura,” which screens in Málaga’s Documentaries – Special Screenings sidebar, further underscoring the partners’ established working relationship.
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