A Casa das Mães

Philippe Costantini

IndieLisboa 2015 • Special Screenings

Portugal, Documentary, 2015, 128′

Documentary filmmaker and Jean Rouch collaborator Philippe Costantini goes inside the House of Santo António to film a “House of Mothers”: a social institution destined for young single mothers to raise their children and hope for a second chance in their troubled lives.)

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