Tiago de Aragão

Seven adolescents take on the mission of filming, for one week, their family's housemaids and hand over the footage to the director to make a film. The images that confront us uncover the complex relationship that exists between housemaids and their employers, a relationship that confuses intimacy and power in the workplace and provides us with an insight into the echoes of a colonial past that linger in contemporary Brazil.

This film, directed by Cristiane Bernardes and anthropologist Tiago de Aragão, reveals the everyday political work of Brazilian women MPs from across the political spectrum. We see them navigating tense relationships with other politicians, staff, the media and citizens, during the last turbulent year of Bolsonaro’s government.