Short film
Filhas de lavadeiras
Duration : 22 min
Synopsis
Filhas de Lavadeiras presents stories of black women in Brazil who, thanks to their mothers’ hard work, were able to go to school and retrace the steps taken by their progenitors. Their memories, joys, sorrows, pains, and poetry demonstrate possibilities of a new destiny. Turning the hard work of the washerwomen into a spectacle of life and fulfillment.