Las Brigadistas

Las Brigadistas

2024•1h 3m

Documentary

tells the experience of a group of medical students who travel to the north of Argentina to assist different indigenous communities that suffer the dispossession of their lands and structural poverty.

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Production

Cine Argentino, INCAA, DOCA Documentalistas argentinos, Colectivo Documental Semillas, DOC SUR

Language

ES

Status

Released

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