Completed - SPANISH - Documentary, Drama, First film - 86 minutes
The Mrs., a 70-year-old widow, and Aridia, her young maid, live in isolation in a house in Santo Domingo where they have domestic chores to keep them occupied. Their relationship is tense, but as the end of the day, they know they only have each other.
Year of production : 2014 Director(s) : Oriol ESTRADA, NATALIA CABRAL, Oriol ESTRADA, Natalia CABRAL Producer(s) : Natalia CABRAL (FAULA FILMS), Oriol ESTRADA (FAULA FILMS)
The Mrs., an old widow and Aridia, a young maid, live together in a house filled with orchids in the center of Santo Domingo. Aridia cleans, the Mrs. gardens, and when work is slow, they can share some gossip. But sometimes, the atmosphere gets tense: the Mrs. wakes up grumpy, she blames Aridia and when Aridia tries to defend herself, the Mrs. has to remind her “where her place is”; in time, they end up not talking to each other. But the hours pass by, the soap appears on TV, something happens in the neighborhood, and, out of nowhere, the Mrs. and Aridia come close again, ending the day sharing some laughs…The film is an excuse to watch their relationship closely, to perceive what happens when the border seem to diffuse itself in a place where difference of social class and race remain deep in the culture.
Country(ies) : DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
DocCorner 2015Visions du Reel 2014 (World Premiere)Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival 2014 (Best Feature Documentary Award)Doc Buenos Aires 2014Filmar en América Latina 2014Havana International Film Festival 2014 (International Competition)Dominican Republic Global Film Festival 2014Iran International Documentary Film Festival 201455th International Film Festival of Cartagena de Indias (FICCI) 2015 (Special Jury Prize)Festival Régional et International du Cinéma de Guadaloupe FEMI 2015FICBAQ, Festival Internacional de Cine de Barranquilla 2015Curaçao IFF Rotterdam 2015 (Nomine of the Yellow Robin Award)RDOC, IDFF of Dominican Republic and Caribbean 2015 (Best Dominican Documentary Feature Award)Havana Film Festival in Ny 2015 (Documentary Competition)Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2015 (Doc Market)IBAFF Murcia International Film Festival 2015 (Focus: Caribbean Avant-Garde)