"Las Toreras" grabs Spanish-Swiss tragedy by the horns

'Las Toreras', a documentary by Swiss artist Jackie Brutsche, tells a story of art and reconciliation, of a family taboo and of a suicide causing a rift in a Spanish-Swiss family. https://t.co/uadGspyLow

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"Las Toreras chronicles – and, in doing so, strives to unpack – the complex prehistory, the multi-layered aftermath and the border-crossing emotional fallout of a singular traumatic event in Brutsche’s life: in 1987, when she was just ten years old, her Spanish-born mother, Carmen, killed herself in Zurich’s Oerlikon district."

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