The pressure put on Maltese women to start a family is among the main themes in a new feature film which has just been released for worldwide streaming.
In Corpore is Sarah Jayne Portelli’s second feature film. It looks at the relationship and identity of four separate couples across four countries – Malta, Germany, Australia and the US.
It delves into love, lust, commitment, traditional expectations and all the in-betweens of relationships.
The film has received a number of positive international reviews after being released on Amazon Prime and Vimeo last week.
“I wanted our movie to have Maltese actors speaking in the Maltese dialect so that our viewers not only know about Malta but also our language,” Portelli told Times of Malta.
Portelli explained how she and her husband Ivan Malekin, also a filmmaker, came up with the idea.
“We had been recently married at the time we wrote this, and we wanted to discuss the different types of relationships and to explore the nature of commitment and love,” she said.
The Maltese story within the film delves into the marriage between Anna (Naomi Said) and Manny (Christopher Dingli) who are planning to have a baby.
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