Anita, a young Jewish woman with Down Syndrome, lives with her devoted mother above the shop her late father started in a commercial district of Buenos Aires. Into their sweetly sedate domestic life the outside world intrudes with unexpected fury. As  Anita wanders the city, she finds compassion in unlikely quarters through the simple force of her ingenuous personality and open heart. Wrenching, lovely, suffused with life, Anita is a profoundly hopeful study of human innocence, compassion and resilience in a fragile, troubled world.

Join director Marcos Carnevale for a post-film Q&A at the Castro.

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Principal Cast: Alejandra Manzo, Leonor Manso, Norma Aleandro