LOLA ARIAS
Reas (film)
/ARG/
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.
Runtime: 82 min
Language: Spanish
Subtitles Estonian / English
Screening times:
Sat, 4.07 at 15.30 in Rakvere Theatre Cinema (BUY TICKET, ticket sale starts at 15th of April at 12.00)
Sun, 5.07 at 14 in Rakvere Theater Cinema (BUY TICKET, ticket sale starts at 15th of April at 12.00)
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Lola Arias is an Argentinian 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.
Arias’s productions blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. As Etchells writes in Re-enacting Life (2019) ”Sitting in the theatre, wandering a site-specific location or watching a film, we are inculcated into others’ narratives wound into their complexities, joys and disappointments. At the same time, we are also invited and at times confronted, in an extraordinary and acute way, to reflect on the contingencies and fragilities of our own stories, individual and collective, as well as on our shifting, unresolved relation to the precarious and dangerous machinery that is social and political history.”
Her theatre performances and films has been presented at all the important festivals and theatres in the World.
Her second feature film, Reas (2024), premiered at the 74th Forum of the Berlinale Film Festival and got the Best Documentary Award at the Luxemburg Film Festival. In 2024, she won the prestigious International Ibsen Award.
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Director: Lola Arias
Starring: Yoseli Marlene Arias, Ignacio Amador Rodriguez, Estefanía del Lujan Hardcastle, Noelia Luciana Perez, Paulita Verónica Asturayme, Carla Romina Canteros
Produced by A Gema Films, Sutor Kolonko, Mira Film production
