ARGENTINA / 15 MIN / 2016 / FICTION / DCP 2K / 2.35:1 / STEREO / COLOR
Subtitles available: English
Buenos Aires 1947. On the radio there is a parliament’s debate about women’s possibility to vote. Deputies claim that the woman is inferior to the men and that’s why she must not decide the future of their country. Maria is waiting for her mother to come back from work but she doesn’t. She went to the women’s rights manifestation.
Buenos Aires, 1947. En la radio suena un debate parlamentario, los diputados argumentan que la mujer es inferior al hombre por eso no debe decidir el destino de su patria. María espera la llegada de su madre del trabajo; pero su madre no vuelve, se va a la manifestación.
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Festivals & Awards
- Festival de Cine Esteban Echeverria (Argentina, 2016) – winner Best Cinematography
- Festival de Cine Lapacho (Argentina, 2016)
- Feme Mina (Uruguay, 2017)
- Independent Political Activism Short Film Festival (Greece, 2017)
- Festival de Cine de Chascomús (Argentina, 2017)
- UNCIPAR (Argentina, 2017)
- Pachuca Film Festival (Mexico)
- Festival internacional de Derechos Humanos de Bogotá (Colombia, 2017)
- Vancouver LatinAmerican Film Festival (Canada, 2017)
- Fesancor (Chile, 2017)
- Festival de Cine Latinoamericano Rosario (Argentina, 2017)
- Festival ADF de Fotografía (Argentina, 2017)
- Festival de Cine Nacional Leonardo Favio (Argentina, 2017)
- Festival Internacional de Cortos de la Cuenca del Salado (Argentina, 2017)
- Festival de Cortometrajes de Villa Mercedes La hora mágica (Argentina, 2017)
- Certamen Internacional de Cortometrajes Roberto Di Chiara (Argentina, 2017)
- MIC Género (Mexico, 2018)
- MIC Genero Buenos Aires (Argentina, 2018)
- Piriápolis de Película (Uruguay, 2017) – Special Mention
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cast
Regina Merener Bloch, Maria Pierrou de Estévez Ines Estévez, Brenda Howlin, Juliana Ascua, Marina Stein, Catalina Ginzburg
written and directed by
Silvina Estévez
producer
Gabriela Luraschi
cinematographer
Lucas Timerman
art director
Laura Guaragna
film editor
Federico Rozas
sound designer
Pablo Gamberg, Ivan Primosich
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director's bio
Silvina Estévez is a young filmmaker from Argentina. Her first short film Self Realisation won first award at BAFTA. She studied sociology, script writing, filmmaking. After directing some short films she developed her first feature documentary film Escuelavida in 2016. Nowadays she is developing her next feature film.