SYNOPSIS

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.

Original Title: Reas Countries: Argentina, Germany, Switzerland Year: 2024 Ratio: 1,89:1 Sound: 5.1 Length: 82 min Language: Spanish

BIOGRAPHY

She 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.

FILMOGRAPHY

Reas - 2024

Theatre of War - 2018

CREW

Director and Screenwriter: Lola Arias DOP: Martín Benchimol Art Director: Angeles Frinchaboy Editors: 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

CAST

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 and Bettna Otaso

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

Berlinale - Forum - 2024

Luxembourg City Film Festival - Documentary Competition - Best Documentary - 2024

Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival - Film Forward Competition - The Golden Alexander, Mermaid Award - 2024

CPH:DOX - Artists & Auteurs - 2024

Festival de Films de Femmes - Feature Documentary Competition - Medici for Equality Prize - Anna Politkovskaïa, Audience Award - 2024

Cinélatino - Rencontres de Toulouse - Feature Documentary Competition - Audience Award - 2024

BFI Flare - Minds - 2024

Sunny Bunny Film Festival - Documentary - 2024

FICUNAM - Atlas, International Panorama - 2024

Lima Film Festival - Latin American documentary competition - Special mention for best documentary - 2024

San Sebastian Film Festival - Horizontes Latinos - 2024

Festival Biarritz Amerique Latine - 2024

Nouveau Cinema Film Festival Montreal - Les Nouveaux Alchimistes - 2024

Bogota International Film Festival - 2024

48th Mostra São Paulo International Film - 2024

AFI FEST - Discvoery Section - 2024

IDFA - Signed Section - 2024

Lola arias

Writer-Director