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Patient

2015 · 74 min

A quietly tense, emotionally heavy documentary that immerses you in a mother's exhausting bureaucratic fight, leaving you anxious and sympathetic.

Directed by
Jorge Caballero
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Nubia Martínez, Leidy Johana Ortegón
Overview
PATIENT is the word that defines us as we follow medical instructions or have to stay calm while we wait. In Colombia, a country where the harsh health system requires its users to face absurd bureaucratic obstacles to access its services, PATIENT is not only the one who has the disease, but also the one in the daily struggle ensuring that his or her loved one receives all necessary needs. Nubia is a PATIENT, a mother who, despite living with the anguish of possibly losing her daughter to an aggressive cancer, firmly gets to overcome the labyrinths established by the Health System processes upon which her daughter's life depends.

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Directed by
Jorge Caballero
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Nubia Martínez, Leidy Johana Ortegón
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • survival
  • class
  • power
  • parenthood
Places
  • big city
  • hospital
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism10
Romance0
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Jorge Caballero
Written by
Carol Ann Figueroa
Starring
Nubia Martínez, Leidy Johana Ortegón
Cinematography
Lukas Jaramillo
Runtime
74 min
Country
Colombia
Languages
Spanish

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