Salud rural

A human tragedy on the backdrop of a legal and medical scandal which in 2007 lead to legal action against the Argentinean state before the UN Human Rights Commission and a verdict of guilty in 2011. The mentally and physically handicapped 16-year-old girl Laura had been raped by her uncle in 2006. But a legal abortion which had already been officially granted at the request of her mother, Vicenta, was opposed by lawyers and doctors.

The story of a boy who lives in a humble neighborhood and has problems with a police commissioner. The backdrop is the Argentine crisis experienced in the Buenos Aires suburbs, and the first scene portrays the looting of a supermarket. The short was part of "Short Stories I" (1995).

In debt and bankrupt, the “Grissinopoli” breadsticks factory is abandoned by its owners. However, its 16 workers decide to occupy, live and resist in their jobs so that it does not disappear. By forming a private worker cooperative they try to keep the company running by their own means, but this desperate and utopian way out of growing unemployment is not easy.

Stories of girls and boys whose rights to live with their families were violated. First- and third-person accounts that show wounded childhoods and care processes, and how difficult it is to grow up without supportive bonds.

It is February when the almost 60 women that make up the 40/90 Ballet get together to start working. 8 months of hard rehearsals await you. The group is made up of housewives, employees, psychologists, teachers, merchants. There are married, single, widowed and divorced. The youngest is 47 years old, the oldest 81, and except for one, none of them has ever danced professionally. With 87 years in tow, Elsa, the director of the Ballet, arrives. This great and hyperactive woman with white hair and a cane is responsible for thinking the choreographies, adapting the music, designing the costumes and lighting among many other things.