Maids and bosses

Awards

• Film by Abner Benaim, documentary in coproduction with Panama, with the support of INCAA and Ibermedia.
• World premiere at IDFA, Amsterdam in November 2010.
• Released in Argentina in August 2011.

Synopsis

Through the very peculiar relations between several live-in housemaids and their employers, Maids and Bosses evaluates human relations between social classes in Latin America. Rich and poor, under the same roof, share a big part of their life, and very complex emotional relations surge. Despite their physical proximity, maids and bosses are separated by an invisible socio-economical barrier. In this creative documentary, the class divide and its implications is approached from an intimate, personal point of view, focusing on those who choose to, or not, look each other in the eyes and accept each other as equals.