Sentient.Art.Film, an filmmaker-focused distribution model, presents a diptych of genre-defying independent films from South America: the New York premiere of Theo Montoya’s acclaimed ANHELL69, and the world premiere of As Talavistas and ela.ltda’s mini-DV opus RAW SESSION, previously screened at the 2022 IDFA in Amsterdam.
ANHELL69
Dir. Theo Montoya, 2022
Colombia, Romania, France, Germany.
In Spanish.
SATURDAY, JUNE 1 – 7:30 PM
SUNDAY, JUNE 9 – 5 PM
FRIDAY, JUNE 14 – MIDNIGHT
THURSDAY, JUNE 20 – 7:30 PM
A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín as a young director tells the story of his past and recalls the pre-production of his first film, a B-Movie with ghosts. As a docufiction “trans film”, in the words of the director, Anhell69 explores the dreams, doubts and fears of an annihilated generation.
SESSÃO BRUTA
(aka RAW SESSION)
Dir. As Talavistas and ela.ltda, 2022
Brazil.
In Portuguese.
SATURDAY, JUNE 1 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, JUNE 7 – 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, JUNE 11 – 10 PM
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 – 7:30 PM
Synopsis: Shot with a Mini-DV camera without major preparations but with a great deal of sweat and beer, RAW SESSION presents itself as a succession of prologues of a film always yet to be made.
“A Brazilian collective of cross-dresser, transgender and non-binary friends filmed themselves in 2018 with a Mini DV camera, spontaneously and with little preparation. Four years later, the collective, As Talavistas & ela.ltda, edited the raw material to create a succession of prologues to a film that, as they say themselves, is continually in progress.
The result so far is a playful, personal, political and uncompromising self-portrait. The friends, all multiracial and thus doubly marginalized, talk frankly about themselves and the issues they struggle with, in a society that poses a constant danger to trans people. Brazil has the highest murder rate of transgender people in the world.”
– IDFA 2022