BEST DOCUMENTARY - Mexican Film Academy | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AWARD - Human Rights Film Festival Spain | YOUNG JURY AWARD - Guadalajara International Film Festival
Labor Precariousness • Human Rights Abuse • Female Vulnerability
Date of Completion: 2024 | Run Time: 85 minutes | Language: Spanish with English subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director, Scriptwriter & Producer: Luciana Kaplan | Producer: Luis Arenas | Executive Producers: Paul Miller & Ursula Romero Gerberding | Director of Photography: Gabriel Serra | Editors: Liora Spilk & Yibran Asuad | Music: Alejandro Castaños
¿Who cleans your city? THE INVISIBLE CONTRACT reflects on the concept of being invisible, drawing on the testimony, experiences, and scenes from the lives of women in charge of cleaning public spaces in Mexico City. Told with a range of narrative devices including observational cinema, interviews, testimonial cinema, and fiction, all leading to a reflection on invisibility and job precariousness. The documentary portrays women’s daily struggle to be heard, a constant fight to improve their labor conditions, each in their own way, focusing on their lives and points of view, with the aim of shining a spotlight and reinterpreting the invisibility of their existence.
AWARDS
Fipresci Award | Guadalajara International Film Festival
Young Jury Award | Guadalajara International Film Festival
Ariel Award | Mexican Film Academy
Amnesty International Award | Human Rights Film Festival Donostia
Best International Film | Human Rights Film Festival Uruguay
FESTIVALS
Docs MX
Doqumenta
Morelia International Film Festival
Docs Puebla
Dok.Fest Munchen