Housemaids

Housemaids

76 mins | Documentary | Sept. 18, 2012

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.

Housemaids

76 mins | Documentary | Sept. 18, 2012

Housemaids
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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers FiGa Films, Desvia
Original title Doméstica
Directors Gabriel Mascaro
Writers