Las Brigadistas

Las Brigadistas

Las Brigadistas

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Las Brigadistas

2024

1h 3m

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tells the experience of a group of medical students who travel to the north of Argentina to assist different indigenous communities that suffer the dispossession of their lands and structural poverty.

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DOCA Documentalistas argentinos

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