The Face of a Gaze

In the city, ATTTA’s Containment Center emerges as a space where resistance is practiced through everyday life. Alejandra and Pía, together with the other trans women who inhabit the place, sustain a network that survives between the memory of the repression of the 1990s and the urgency of present-day needs. Through their work in the community kitchen, healthcare support, and conversations around the table, the short film portrays how collective gathering and shared memory manage to build a refuge of identity in the face of precarity, transforming abandonment into a shared way of inhabiting the world.

Cast

Pía Avila

as Pía Avila

Lorena Páez

as Lorena Páez

Nicole Oviedo

as Nicole Oviedo

Florencia Montreal

as Florencia Montreal

Julia Chatzigrigoriu

as Julia Chatzigrigoriu

Fernanda Arrieta

as Fernanda Arrieta

Alejandra Britos

as Alejandra Britos

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