LAS BRIGADISTAS, UN VIAJE POR LA SALUD POPULAR

THE HEALTH BRIGADE VOLUNTEERS

By Juan Pablo LEPORE

COLECTIVO DOCUMENTAL SEMILLAS - as PROD

Social issues - Completed 2023

Health workers travel to the north of Argentina to assist indigenous communities that live the dispossession and violence of agribusiness that advances on their ancestral territory

Festivals
& Awards

Ventana Sur 2023
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH-ARGENTINE
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 61 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Juan Pablo LEPORE
    • Synopsis
    • Las Brigadistas" recounts the experience of a group of young health professionals who make up the Popular Health Brigade and leave the City of Buenos Aires to work with different communities from the Chaco of Salta. Faced with living and coexisting with inequality in the health, there will be a transformation both for them and for the communities themselves.
      The documentary "Las Brigadistas" addresses an urgent issue that leads us to introduce ourselves to a problem that is spreading throughout the country, mainly in the north of Argentina. Discrimination and contempt for Native Peoples is not a new issue, we have been dragging this social pathology for centuries. In this sense, the film aims at empathy and tells the experience of a group of young health professionals who travel to work with different communities from the Chaco of Salta. The film proposes to reflect on the scope and the need to build popular health, as well as to question the situations of inequality of peers.