A local film whose message is not political, but social. It's about sexual violence and society's vision of rape victims, who are scarred for life, and how they are forever haunted by the personal trauma of these events.
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Silvia is a woman enclosed in the narrowness of patriarchal canons. She´s just 55, but she thinks that her life lacks of value. However, she will discover soon that she´s wrong
If you don’t laugh, you’re dead
A portrayal of girlhood through the eyes of an average teenage girl.
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