Yoseli has a tattoo of the Eiffel Tower on her back and has always wanted to travel, but she was arrested at the airport for drug trafficking. Nacho is a trans man 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.
- Berlinale – Forum
- Luxembourg Film Festival – Documentary Competition – Best Documentary
- Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival – Film Forward Competition – The Golden Alexander, Mermaid Award
- CPH:DOX – Artists & Auteurs
- Festival de Films de Femmes – Feature Documentary Competition – Medici for Equality Prize - Anna Politkovskaïa, Audience Award
- Cinélatino – Rencontres de Toulouse – Feature Documentary Competition – Audience Award
- BFI Flare – Minds
- Sunny Bunny Film Festival – Documentary
- FICUNAM – Atlas, International Panorama
- Lima Film Festival – Latin American Documentary Competition – Special Mention for Documentary
- San Sebastian International Film Festival – Horizontes Latinos
- Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine
- Mostra São Paulo International Film
- AFI Fest – Discovery Section
- IDFA – Signed Section
Lola Arias is a writer, theatre and film director and performer. She collaborates with people from different backgrounds (war veterans, former communists, Bulgarian children, etc.) in theatre, literature, music, film and art projects. Her productions play with the overlap zones between reality and fiction.
Her works for theatre have been performed at festivals such as: Lift Festival, London, Under the Radar, NY, Festival d’Avignon, Theater Spektakel, Zurich, Wiener Festwochen, Festival Theaterformen, Brunswick/Hanover, Spielart Festival, Munich, and Berlinale, as well as in venues like Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, Redcat, LA, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, Parque de la memoria, Buenos Aires, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Royal Court Theatre, London.
In 2024, she won the prestigious International Ibsen Award. The award ceremony took place on October 13th 2024, at the National Theatret in Oslo, Norway.
- Reas – 2024 – Documentary
- Theatre of War – 2018 – Documentary
Yoseli Arias
Ignacio Amador Rodriguez
Estefy Harcastle
Carla Canteros
Noelia Perez
Paulita Asturayme
Laura Amato
Pato Aguirre
Cinthia Aguirre
Julieta Fernandez
Silvana Gomez
Daniela Borda
Jade De la Cruz Romero
Bettna Otaso
Screenwriter: Lola Arias
DOP: Martín Benchimol
Editor: Ana Remon, Jose Goyeneche
Costume Design: Andy Piffer
Sound: Sofia Straface, Daniel Almada
Music: Ulises Conti
Production: Gema Films, Sutor Kolonko
Coproduction: Mira Films Gmbh
World Sales: Luxbox
