Illiterate
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Ximena is an illiterate woman in her fifties, who has learned to live on her own to keep her illiteracy as a secret. Jackeline, is a young unemployed elementary school teacher, who tries to convince Ximena to take reading classes. Persuading her proves to be an almost impossible task, till one day, Jackeline finds something Ximena has been keeping as her only treasure since she was a child: a letter Ximena's father left when he abandoned her many years before. Thus, the two women embark on a learning journey where they discover that there are many ways of being illiterate, and that not knowing how to read is just one of them.
Starring Valentina Muhr, Paulina García, Alejandro Trejo, Nicolás Zárate, Diego Acuña, Paula Caro, Catalina Bolivar, Amaro Fredes, Ángel Maulen, Carmén Rodríguez
Watch "Illiterate" on Amazon released in 2014. It's a drama movie, and has a rating of 6.3 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie, and is currently only available for purchase or rent.
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