Seven minutes that'll leave you breathless — and not from the runtime.
Little Claire kills time with María, her Ecuadorian nanny, while waiting for her mother to arrive.
Direction
Martelli's precise framing turns a bathtub into a pressure cooker.
Acting
Ximena Mieles conveys entire histories without dialogue.
Director
Manuela Martelli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Manuela Martelli is a Chilean actress-turned-director; this was her directorial debut before her acclaimed feature '1976'.
The title refers to breath-holding underwater, but also captures the suffocating limbo of immigrant domestic labor — always present, never fully seen.
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