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La Manuela (2017)
- 1h 24m
Overview
LA MANUELA is a movie about exile and self-reinvention. In august 2015, Manuela Lavinas Picq, a french-brazilian journalist and university professor, was arrested at a demonstration in Quito, Ecuador. That same night, her work visa was revoked and she was taken into custody. Manuela was forced to leave Ecuador, where she had lived for the last decade, losing her home, work and lover. This film tells the trajectory of an activist who defends the causes of indigenous peoples with a lot of identity.
- Director
- Clara Linhart
- Writers
- Luis Cañizares, Letícia Simões
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Carlos Pérez Guartambel
Lena Lavinas
Hildete Pereira de Melo
Lúcia Mugayar
Sonia Correa
Bila Sorj
Celina de Farias
Francisco das Chagas Felix de Lima
Maria das Neves Gaudêncio
Denise Gentil
Ivo Lesbaupin
Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima
Robert Linhart
Chimaway López
Markel Thomas
Antonia Carcelén
Victoria Maillo de Aguilera
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