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A WOMAN KNOWS

UNA MUJER SABE

By Victoria ANDINO

AH! CINE - as PROD

Drama - Pre-Production 2023

Ana, a housewife who lives in a small town in the Argentine Patagonia, is suddenly pushed into an almost illegal adventure

MAFF Malaga 2020

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Drama, Road movie
- Countries
- ARGENTINA, CHILE
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Victoria ANDINO
- Writer(s)
- María MEIRA, María Eugenia CASTAGNINO, Victoria ANDINO
- Cast
- Mara BESTELLI, Tijoux ANA, Alfredo CASTRO
- Producer(s)
- Edson SIDONIE (BIKINI FILMS (ARGENTINA)), Cynthia GARCIA CALVO (CYAN PRODS), Christoph HAHNHEISER (BLACK FOREST FILMS GMBH), Claire CHASSAGNE (DOLCE VITA FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Ana, a housewife who lives in a small town in the Patagonia, she receives a call that breaks her routine existence. Her husband is in prison. He asks her to cross to Chile to find money for a bribe.
  Upon arriving to Chile she meets her contact, a hardened woman named María, mother of a young child. Together, they will carry out a one-day raid looking for money in brothels.
  After the money was collected, María places it on Ana's body, hidden under her clothes. When she arrives at the border crossing, Ana realizes that María and her son are Guillermo's secret second family.
  She gets furious and forces María to cross to Argentina with her. On the way, María reveals that Guillermo takes part in a human trafficking network.
  How will Ana face this new reality?
- Partners & financing
- INCAA Production Grant (ARG)
  Patronage Law GCBA (ARG)
  Raymundo Gleyzer Contest - Development Grant (ARG)
  Cyan Prods (Chile)
- Beginning of shooting
- May 03, 2021
- End of shooting
- Jun 05, 2020