Thesis on a Domestication

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Overview

A successful transgender actress decided to adopt a child with her lawyer husband . She juggles her career, marriage, and the adoption in pursuit of domestic happiness, all while trying to embrace her flaws and contradictions and also claim and defend her right to ambition, desire, and security. But that pursuit is eventually thwarted when they visit the actress's hometown.

Cast: Camila Sosa Villada, Alfonso Herrera, Carlos Cano, Romina Escobar, Ignacio Ferrechio, more

Director: Javier van de Couter

Genres: Drama

Cast

Camila Sosa Villada

Actriz

Alfonso Herrera

Abogado

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Carlos Cano

Hermano

Romina Escobar

Mariela Muñoz

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Ignacio Ferrechio

Hijo

Adriana Ferrer

Asistente social

Susana Varela

Madre

Sebastián Arzeno

Director obra

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Adela Buendía

Asistente actriz

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Barbie di Rocco

Amiga fuego

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Ana Schmukler

Cuñada

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Atilio Luenda

Padre

Daniel Aimetta

Borracho

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Victoria Banegas

Sobrina

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Diana Szeinblum

Directora multiespacio

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