Andrea Testa
Andrea Testa was born in 1987, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her first documentary feature film was the very well-received Pibe Chorro (2016). Her feature film The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis (2016), co-directed with Francisco Márquez, was awarded Best International Film in BAFICI and was part of Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival and Horizontes Latinos (Latin Horizons) of the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Her last work, Mother-Child (2019) was premiered at IDFA, where it received a special mention.
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Mother-Child
In the consulting rooms of a public hospital in Argentina, social workers dialogue with pregnant young girls, women who has just given birth or other ones that are hospitalized due to unsafe abortions. Coming from the environment of extreme poverty and vulnerability, many of them are victims of gender violence. Hence, their pregnancies make it even more difficult to imagine a hopeful present or...
Mother-Child
In the consulting rooms of a public hospital in Argentina, social workers dialogue with pregnant young girls, women who has just given birth or other ones that are hospitalized due to unsafe abortions. Coming from the environment of extreme poverty and vulnerability, many of them are victims of gender violence. Hence, their pregnancies make it even more difficult to imagine a hopeful present or...
