PAULINA
Santiago Mitre

O.V. Spanish

Paulina, 28, abandons her career as a Buenos Aires lawyer to become a schoolteacher in an impoverished Argentinean village. One night, though, the pervasive hostility of the place erupts into violence: the young woman is attacked and raped by a gang of youths. Dealing with the aftermath of the trauma, all too aware that some of her attackers could be her students, Paulina nonetheless resolves to pursue her social ideals to their limit. A contemporary remake of Daniel Tinayre’s 1960 film La...