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'Alanis' (Argentina, 2017), the film that has been praised and nominated by numerous film festivals, including the Toronto Festival, the San Sebastian Festival, the Premios Sur and the Havana Festival, will be screened this Friday 16th March at the Ficcmoteca del Luzzy within the program 'Leer, Pensar, Imaginar'.
The film, by Argentine director Anahí Berneri, will be screened at 8:00 p.m. in its original version in Spanish at the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center assembly hall.
Admission is free until full capacity is reached.
It shows the stark reality of the protagonist, played by an exceptional Sofia Gala, as a sex worker and mother of a small child.
After taking her roommate accused of "trafficking", Alanis will enter a multiracial, transit and violent neighborhood in which she will fight to regain her dignity, help her friend, take care of her son and, finally, become a place in society.
The critic Jordi Costa has written about this film in El País: "Sofia Gala Castiglione, with her own suckling child holding on to her breasts, is Alanis in this film conscious of being, first of all, a character portrait rather than a denunciation or a social awareness speech.
Anahí Berneri does not want to moralize, nor to indoctrinate, but to be faithful to the look of her character and to her circumstances - fragmentaries, almost always out of the field - knowing that the rest will come in addition.
And there it is, for example, that climactic scene of sex where the client's cocaine-breathing, the ritual exchange of insults and the look of her before the mirror say it all.
Or the truth that transpires the provisional nature of that refuge in a friend's store.
Or the contrast between the relatively cozy precariousness of that floor besieged by municipal agents and the fierce struggle for territory in the streets.
A necessary and irreproachable film. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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