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Estamira (2004)

Estamira (2004)

Documentary

Everything that is imaginary has, exists and is

Release Date: 2004, October 1
Directors: Marcos Prado
Countries: Brazil
Production: Zazen Produções
Cast: Estamira

Overview:

Estamira is a 63-year-old woman who suffers from schizophrenia. She leads a tough life and has supported herself for the past 20 years by picking through garbage at the Jardim Gramacho Disposal Area in Rio de Janeiro. The film follows her starting in 2000, the year she begins treatment in a psychiatric clinic. At first, it is hard to understand her in her stream-of-consciousness sentences, delusions and obsessions. Gradually, however, we get to know her as a woman who can have quiet and lucid moments despite her illness.

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