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CUIDADORAS

By Martina MATZKIN, Gabriela UASSOUF

Documentary - Completed 2024

Three transgender women start working as caregivers in a public nursing home for the elderly. The tenderness of the bond they forge with the residents leaves all prejudice behind.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Documentary, LGBT, Female director
- Countries
- ARGENTINA, CHILE
- Languages
- SPANISH-ARGENTINE
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Martina MATZKIN, Gabriela UASSOUF
- Producer(s)
- Rocio PICHIRILI (GRONCHO ESTUDIO), Marianne MAYER-BECKH (EL OTRO FILM)
- Synopsis
- It's Luciana, Maia, and Yenifer's first day as caregivers at the Nursing Home. They must learn to deal with the frailty of the elderly, completely unfamiliar to them. As transgender women, this is their first formal job, and the new routine becomes a huge challenge.
  But the days go by within those hallways isolated from the world, and they begin to forge bonds with the residents that grow deeper and deeper, despite their differences. Maia finds in Alicia and Lela two loyal advisors and emotional supporters. Yenifer grows fond of Vicky, a rapidly declining resident, and her efforts to uplift Vicky confirm her passion about caregiving. Luciana becomes an accomplice of Beto, who helps her shape her dream of traveling around Argentina.
  Over time, that once strange place becomes a home for the caregivers as well.