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HERMANAS

By Paola OCHOA

Social issues - Post-Production 2020

Every summer my aunts and mother, four middle-aged sisters, spend their vacations together.

HERMANAS follows them through their day-to-day lives and conversations during this time. Their stories will reflect on love, relationships and being a woman in Colombia’s society.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- COLOMBIA, USA
- Languages
- SPANISH-COLOMBIAN
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 76 mn
- Director(s)
- Paola OCHOA
- Producer(s)
- Sebastián SARMIENTO (EXTRANJERO FILMS), Paola OCHOA (EXTRANJERO FILMS), Pau BRUNET (AMPLITUD), Jana DIAZ JUHL (AMPLITUD), Axel SHALSON (AMPLITUD)
- Synopsis
- Every summer my aunts and mother, four sisters in their 60’s, spend vacations together at their family home. For me -- the director (30) — the trip is a yearly tradition and a fundamental part of my upbringing. As I document one particular summer, the desire to further investigate my own family history grows deeper.
  
  When I was sixteen, my father left my mother for a younger woman. What am I supposed to make of the old photos of my mother and father in love as a young couple? Was their love real? Who is this happy family looking back at me from the past?
  
  Through my aunts heartfelt and often hilarious discussions about life and love, a portrait of resilient womanhood in contemporary Colombia is revealed.