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ALIS

By Clare WEISKOPF, Nicolas VAN HEMELRYCK

Social issues - Post-Production 2022

Teenage girls who lived on the unforgiving streets of Bogota, close their eyes and dream up Alis, a fictional classmate. Their soulful narrative reveals an amazing perseverance to break the cycle of violence and embrace a brighter future.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary, Drama
- Countries
- COLOMBIA, ROMANIA, CHILE
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Clare WEISKOPF, Nicolas VAN HEMELRYCK
- Producer(s)
- Nicolas VAN HEMELRYCK (CASATARÁNTULA), Radu STANCU (DEFILM), Clare WEISKOPF (CASATARÁNTULA), Alexandra GALVIS (PANTALLA CINES)
- Synopsis
- How do you build a “new life” when you are born without opportunities? Can you leave despair behind and project another destiny? Through a creative act, teenage girls who lived on the streets of Bogota give life to a fictional classmate. As reality prevails and fiction fades, the innocent game becomes a descent into hell where their luminous faces guide us to the depths of the dark world they once inhabited only to emerge with new skin. How to imagine a different life, break the cycle of violence and embrace the future?