The Misfortune of Femininity

2020 / 10min / 35mm / Doc-Fiction 

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The Misfortune of Femininity is a 2020 New Yorker feminist short film directed by Julieta Tetelbaum. 

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Cindy, an upper-middle-class woman who lives with her family in a New York fancy house, realizes that she wasted her entire life trying to please her husband and children. 

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The short film is part of the virtual collection of the Public Library of Congress of the Argentine Nation. It was screened in independent cinemas in several cities such as New York, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Lisbon, Warsaw, Bilbao, Barcelona, Madrid, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and many others.

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Official film festival selections:

Feminysta New York Film Festival 2020 - New York, US.

Basta! Film Festival 2020 from Library of Congress of the Argentine Nation - Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Fem Tour Truck Film Festival 2020 - Worldwide.

Vierte Welle Berlin Film Festival 2021 - Berlin, Germany.

 

Written, Directed & Edited by Julieta Tetelbaum

Produced by Genderless Films

Cast: Cindy Keiter & Sol Liebeskind

Sound Design & Mixing: Damián Allegretti

SFX Makeup: Sabi Nunez

Director of Photography & Camera: Julieta Tetelbaum

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© 2020 Julieta Tetelbaum

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