''Primas'' is a 95-minute 2017

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

directed by

Laura Bari Laura Bari is an Argentinian born and Montréal based filmmmaker. She studied pedagogy at Université du Québec à Montréal, specializing in psychopathology of the expression. Her debut feature film, ''Antoine'' (2008), is an-award winning doc ...

. It is a coming-of-age portrait of two Argentine teenagers who, in the wake of odious crimes that interrupted their childhood, free themselves from the shadows of the past. First in Argentina, then during an initiatory trip to Canada, the two girls, Rocío and Aldana, grow up, expressing through their bodies what their imagination reveals, their unique perspective and their unwavering resistance. ''Primas'' had its international premiere at

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam. Over a period of twelve days, it has screened more than 300 films and sold more than 250,000 tic ...

and was also selected at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina and at the !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival, winning the international competition's Audience Award and the ''Love and Change'' Jury Award respectively. The film was released in Canada in the fall of 2018.

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''Primas'' Vimeo teaser
* 2017 films 2017 documentary films 2010s coming-of-age films Canadian documentary films Documentary films about children Documentary films about child abuse Documentary films about feminism Films shot in Montreal Films set in Montreal Quebec films Spanish-language Canadian films 2010s Canadian films {{2010s-Canada-documentary-film-stub