El orfanato The Orphanage / L'Orphelinat

by Juan Antonio Bayona

2007 Selection

SPAIN 2007 1h40 IN SPANISH

Feature Film

Laura spent the happiest years of her childhood growing up in an orphanage. Now, thirty years later, she returns with her husband and Simon, their son, with a dream of restoring and reopening the long abandoned orphanage as a home for disabled children. As the opening day draws near, tension builds within the family. Laura slowly becomes convinced that something long-hidden and terrible is lurking in the old house, something waiting to emerge and inflict appalling damage on her family.