Reas
dir. Lola Arias / 2024, Argentina / Germany / Switzerland, 82' / Warsaw premiere
8.09.24
20:30
Kinoteka, plac Defilad, Warszawa, Polska
Director: Lola Arias
Screenplay: Lola Arias
Cinematography: Martín Benchimol
Editing: Ana Remon, Jose Goyeneche
Sound: Sofia Straface, Daniel Almada
Music: Ulises Conti
Producer(s): Gema Juárez Allen, Clarisa Oliveri, Vadim Jendreyko, Ingmar Trost
Production: Gema Films, Sutor Kolonko
World sales: Luxbox
Language: hiszpański
Website: https://www.luxboxfilms.com/reas
SYNOPIS
Partners:
Yoseli has a tattoo of the Eiffel Tower on her back and has always wanted to travel to Europe, but she was arrested at the airport for drug trafficking. Nacho is a transman who was arrested for swindling and started a rock band in jail. Gentle or rough, blonde or shaved, cis or trans, long-term inmates or newly admitted: in this hybrid musical, they all re-enact their lives in a Buenos Aires prison. “Reas” is a collective work that reinvents the musical genre: the performers dance and sing about their past in prison, relive their life as fiction, and invent, through fantasy and imagination, a possible future for themselves.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
Berlinale, Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (Golden Alexander in Film Forward Competition, Mermaid Award), Luxembourg City Film Festival (Best Documentary), CPH:DOX, BFI Flare, Cinélatino - Rencontres de Toulouse (Audience Award), Festival de Films de Femmes (Medici for Equality Prize - Anna Politkovskaïa, Audience Award), Sunny Bunny Film Festival, FICUNAM, mBank New Horizons International Film Festival
LOLA ARIAS
Born in Argentina. A writer, theatre and film director. She is a multifaceted artist whose work brings together people from different backgrounds (war veterans, refugees, sex workers, etc.) in theatre, film, literature, music and visual art projects. Her productions blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. Arias studied Literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Dramaturgy at the Escuela de Artes Dramáticas (Buenos Aires) and participated in playwrights’ residencies at the Royal Court Theatre (London) and Casa de América (Madrid). In 2014 she completed the Film Laboratory workshop at the Universidad Di Tella (Buenos Aires). Her first feature film “Theatre of War” (2018) was selected for the 68th Forum of the Berlinale Film Festival and received several prizes including the CICAE Art Cinema Award, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Best Director Award at the 20th BAFICI Festival, and the Movistar+ Prize for Best Documentary Film at Documenta Madrid. Her second feature film, “Reas” (2024), premiered at the 74th Forum of the Berlinale Film Festival and won the Best Documentary Award at the Luxembourg City Film Festival.
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