This Is the Memory I Would Like to Have of Mom

This Is the Memory I Would Like to Have of Mom is a Spain-Mexico co-production now in development from director Ernesto Martínez Bucio, whose debut feature The Devil Smokes won the Berlinale Perspectives Award for best first feature in 2025. Karen Plata, who co-wrote that film with Martínez Bucio, pens the screenplay for this second feature. The project is being produced by Txintxua Films—the Basque company behind Netflix series Intimacy—alongside Mexican production outfit Colectivo Colmena, with Marian Fernández Pascal producing for Txintxua and Daniel Loustaunau and Mauricio Calderón producing for Colectivo Colmena. The film centers on Marina, 27, reeling from her mother's death when she receives a cancer diagnosis; cassettes preserve her mother's voice while Marina creates false recordings and invented memories. The project received Spain's ICAA Film Board screenplay writing support in 2025 and was selected for San Sebastián's Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, where it seeks additional financing partners.