05.09.2024 | Reas (AR/DE/CH 2024, Lola Arias)

Opening film

AR/DE/CH 2024, D: Lola Arias, A: Noelia Pérez, Estefanía Hardcastle, Paula Asturayme, 82’, OV with English subtitles, DCP

A hybrid of documentary and fiction, first-hand storytelling and musical, REAS opens up a view into the Caseros women’s prison in Buenos Aires. There, women and trans people reconstruct their prison experiences. Former inmates themselves become performers, telling stories, singing and dancing. Yoseli is singing about her wanderlust while airport security pulls a drug parcel out of her suitcase. The story follows Yoseli to Caseros. Harassment and experiences of violence characterise her (non-)arrival, as do romantic love and her attempts to temporarily free herself. In REAS, capturing freedom in prison means expanding the imagination, affirming deviation from the norm. Along the bars, people are voguing and jamming.

In the presence of Lola Arias

Thu 5 SeptUT Connewitz
7 pm€ 7 (6 reduced)

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