SYNOPSIS
In this autobiographical portrait, Susana leaves her native Argentina to live her life outside the strictures of Latin American cultural and family pressures. Susana interweaves cinema vérité interviews of her family and lovers with snapshots, home movies and even a Disney cartoon to render the cultural context in which female, sexual and ethnic identity is shaped.
PRESS
“Susana is very effective in conveying the tension and inner struggle of being a lesbian.”
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
Susana Blaustein has been working in film since 1980. She is best known for her Academy Award nominated film LAS MADRES: THE MOTHERS OF PLAZA DE MAYO, co-directed and produced with Lourdes Portillo, about the courageous struggle of Argentine women seeking to find their "disappeared" sons and daughters. She also directed the award winning film LA OFRENDA: THE DAYS OF THE DEAD about the Mexican holiday celebrating and honoring the dead, SUSANA, about growing up in a conservative and repressive environment and MY HOME, MY PRISON, based on the autobiography of Palestinian journalist Raymonda Tawil. (01/20)