PHONE LINE 137

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LINEA 137

By Lucia VASSALLO

Social issues - Completed 2020

Havana Film Festival 2019

Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival 2020

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- ARGENTINA
- Languages
- SPANISH-ARGENTINE
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 82 mn
- Director(s)
- Lucia VASSALLO
- Writer(s)
- Marta DILLON
- Producer(s)
- Facundo Escudero SALINAS (PENSILVANIA FILMS), Nicolás Münzel CAMAÑO (PENSILVANIA FILMS)
- Synopsis
- In Argentina, every 23 hours there is the death of a woman, because of gender violence, a particular form of “discipline” that certain men exercise against women when they feel that they do not comply with the mandates that “women” – stereotype of the feminine – should comply.
  
  A female corpse every 23 hours. This is one of the most serious naturalized everyday situations; embarrassing for the victims, denied by the victimizers.
  How to account for this emergency? How many times can you see the blows, the statistics, the bruised bodies without the sensibility falling asleep?
  
  “Phone Line 137” portrays the lives of 4 social workers and psychologists who decide to be available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to assist, help and accompany women who suffer cases of gender, sexual and family violence within the City of Buenos Aires.