Directed by Marcelo Martinessi
New England premiere | Paraguay, Germany, Uruguay, Brazil, Norway, France | 2018 | 98 min. | Spanish, Guarani with subtitles
After her girlfriend is imprisoned on fraud charges, a once wealthy older woman is forced to face a new reality. Driving for the first time in years, she begins to provide a local taxi service to a group of wealthy elderly women, and ends up befriending a much younger, exciting one. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize for best director and actress and the Silver Berlin Bear for best director at the Berlin Film Festival. Paraguay’s Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film.
Speaker: Jimena Cascante Matamoros, a graduate student in the Transnational, Cultural and Community Studies program at UMass Boston and a queer rights activist originally from Costa Rica.
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