Seven adolescents take on the mission of filming, for one week, their family's housemaids and hand over the footage to the director to make a film. The images that confront us uncover the complex relationship that exists between housemaids and their employers, a relationship that confuses intimacy and power in the workplace and provides us with an insight into the echoes of a colonial past that linger in contemporary Brazil.
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"Housemaids" A film by Gabriel Mascaro / An Icarus Films Release Housemaids are an integral part of the household ...
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Directed by Gabriel Mascaro.
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HOUSEMAIDS (Doméstica) the new film by Gabriel Mascaro (High Rise & Defiant Brasilia) world premiere at the 2012 IDFA International Documentary Film ...
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