Family Album

2024•1h 15m

Documentary

Through archive footage and images as well as interviews, the movie paints the portrait of a legendary trans womens' rights activist in Argentina. Like a family album to flip through, the narrative charts the ties solidarity and mutual aid create between people of the LGBTQI+ community and the long road to make the personal political, during the brutal 1980s in latin America.

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Mostra Cine

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Status

Released

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Region US · Lang EN

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Cast

María Belén Correa

Maria Marta Aversa

Angela Vanni

Marcela Soldavini

Maria Rachid

Wanda Sánchez

Jésica Peralta

Gustavo Kruger

Mariana Welfa Gutiérrez

Andrea Dafne Guirin Missi

Carola Figueredo

Carmen Marcial

Magali Muñiz

Ivana Tintilay

Ornella Infante

Claudia Castrosin

Tete Vega

Carla Pericles

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