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Housemaids

Housemaids

2012 · 76 min · ★ 6.0 · Documentary

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.

Directed by Gabriel Mascaro · Written by Gabriel Mascaro

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