Malqueridas

They are women. They are mothers. They are inmates serving long sentences in a prison in Chile. Their children grow up far from them, but remain in their hearts. In prison they find the affection of other inmates who share their same experience. Mutual support among these women becomes a form of resistance and emancipation. Malqueridas reconstructs their stories through the images they themselves shot with cell phones prohibited inside the prison, recovering the collective memory of a forgotten community.

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Malqueridas

Chile / 74 min / 2023 / documentary
Texas Premiere
in Spanish with English subtitles
Direction: Tana Gilbert
Screenplay: Tana Gilbert, Paola Castillo Villagran, Javiera Velozo, Karina Sanchez
Cinematography: Women serving prison sentences
Editing: Javiera Velozo, Tana Gilbert
Producers: Paolo Castillo, Dirk Manthey

Trailer

The cellphone image is an intimate one, an extension of the self in some ways when you feel the trembling of the one holding the camera. Thus Malqueridas is a self-portrait, made in illegal terms, a form of protest, a form of solidarity, filmed by women who are denied their freedom. Cinema is made for these sort of gestures. - Jhon Hernandez