Reas

Lola Arias expands her brand of innovative nonfiction filmmaking (such as her award-winning “Theatre of War”) as female and transgender ex-convicts recreate their time spent behind bars in Buenos Aires, but staged as a pop music-infused melodrama.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, they all re-enact their lives in a Buenos Aires prison in this hybrid musical. 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.