The Grown-Ups

A group of friends have been going to the same school for forty years. All of them have Down syndrome. The school is a special education centre in Chile. They are in their forties now. They spend their days in the centre’s kitchen. They do the pastry work and prepare sweets. But they want something else now. They are tired of being treated like children. They are adults and they want to live as adults. What they want is concrete. A better job, money they earn themselves. To be able to live on their own. Some of them want to marry. Families and institutions are not ready for that. The film follows them over years. The eighty two minute documentary carries the signature of Maite Alberdi, a Chilean, Dutch and French co-production finished in 2017.