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ALANIS

By Anahi BERNERI

Drama - Completed 2017

A young mother from Buenos Aires finds employment as a sex worker and struggles to live under the same laws that are supposed to protect her.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2017

Contemporary World Cinema

San Sebastian FF 2017

Official selection Silver Shell for Best Director & Best Actress

Ventana Sur 2017

Latam Screenings

Berlin European Film Market (EFM) 2018

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- ARGENTINA
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Duration
- 82 mn
- Director(s)
- Anahi BERNERI
- Writer(s)
- Anahí BERNERI, Javier VAN DE COUTER
- Cast
- Sofia GALA, Dante DELLA PAOLERA
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-4C9F-0000-Q-0000-0000-X
- Producer(s)
- Laura HUBERMAN (Varsovia), Diego DUBCOVSKY (Varsovia), Anahí BERNERI (Varsovia)
- Synopsis
- Alanis is a sex worker. together with her one-year-old son, she shares with Gisela, an older woman, a so-called "private apartment" in downtown Buenos aires, where she lives and works. two municipal inspectors, posing as clients, enter the apartment, and as a condition to avoid closing down the place, they ask for a permit to function as a "massage parlor", but they don't have one. Alanis seeks accommodation at her aunt's place. she shows up dressed in her work clothes and tells all sorts of lies in order to hide the shameful truth from her family. From there, Alanis will try to recover her dignity, her belongings and her friend. she will take care of her son and try to sell what she knows how to do on the streets. But the streets have their own rules, and Alanis will have to fight to make room for herself. constantly moving, Alanis can't stop to think: Where will i live with my baby? Where will i work? do i have the freedom to make my own choices?