THE CARETAKER
Cannes Docs
SATURDAY 18 MAY 2019
23:30 1h30
Doc Corner Screening Room
THE CARETAKER
Directed by: Gabriela UASSOUF, Martina MATZKIN
Produced by: Rocio PICHIRILI (GRONCHO ESTUDIO)
Country of production: Argentina
Original title: Cuidadoras
Completed in: May 2020
Synopsis:
Three Transsexual women work as caregivers in a nursing home for the elderly in Argentina. The residents’ daily life tends to be a long wait towards death. Their new caregivers challenge them to live rather than to survive. Freedom, memory, unforgotten dreams, shape this bond, mediated by tenderness, trust and empathy.