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ALIS

ALIS (PARA EL FESTIVAL DE LIMA)

By Clare WEISKOPF, Nicolas VAN HEMELRYCK

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Documentary - Completed 2022

Festival de Cine de Lima 2022

Competencia Documental

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary, Children's, Social issues
- Countries
- COLOMBIA, ROMANIA, CHILE
- Languages
- SPANISH-COLOMBIAN
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Clare WEISKOPF, Nicolas VAN HEMELRYCK
- Producer(s)
- Nicolas VAN HEMELRYCK (CASATARÁNTULA), Alexandra GALVIS, Clare WEISKOPF, Radu STANCU
- Synopsis
- In a Colombian shelter for teenage girls, directors Nicolas van Hemelryck and Clare Weiskopf ask a group of young women to close their eyes and imagine the life story of a fictional classmate named Alis. Like them, Alis‘s story begins on the merciless streets of Bogota, where she struggles to survive. Alis becomes their blank canvas, a projection of their past selves and experiences. With a sensitive and compassionate lens, the directors show how the girls’ initial fiction begins to weave into reality, and how this distance has given them a moment to step outside of themselves and see their own experiences through a different perspective. As they gently open their eyes, we get to know these young women deeply, and see their perseverance to break the cycle of violence and embrace a brighter future.
  
  By Heather Haynes, HotDocs