Reas

Lola Arias / Argentina / 2024 / 82 min / English subtitles
Wednesday Oct 1 / 20.30 / Biograf Aspen – Hägerstensvägen 100 A

A truly unique and charming experience, Reas is a hybrid musical, semi-documentary retelling of the stories of interns at a women’s prison in Buenos Aires. Amongst others we get to know Yoseli, who has always dreamt of travelling but is caught at the airport for smuggling drugs, as well as Nacho, the trans man who was arrested for swindling and started a rock band in jail. Using amateur actors and pastel colors, Lola Arias tells their stories with great compassion and humor. Reas is a collective work that reinvents the musical genre as 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.