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Content guidance: contains scenes of explicit sex and violence, and references to drug-use and suicide.
A self-defined trans film, Anhell69 is a genre-busting, transgressive and kaleidoscopic musing on the lives and deaths of a group of queer Colombian twentysomethings.
Neither documentary nor fiction, but somehow of both worlds, Theo Montoya’s feature directorial debut occupies a series of underground, liminal spaces as it follows their attempt to make a sci-fi vampire movie set in a decrepit city where ghosts coexist with the living. Montoya’s intention was to cast their friends and to have the action unfold within Medellin´s underground club and party scene. However, the reality of life for this makeshift cast – from drug-use, disease, poverty and an air of hopelessness, to violence and homo/trans-phobia – ruptures the filmmaker’s intentions. Instead, Anhell69 stands as a powerful and emotionally devastating elegy to many of its protagonists and an allegory of the precarity of life for Colombia´s marginalised.Content guidance: contains scenes of explicit sex and violence, and references to drug-use and suicide.
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Premiere statusUK premiere
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Director(s)Theo Montoya
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Country(s)Colombia, Romania, France, Germany
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Year2022
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Duration72 mins
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Producer(s)Bianca Oana / Monogram Film, David Hurst / Dublin Films, Maximilian Haslberger / Amerikafilm GmbH
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CinematographyTheo Montoya
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EditingMatthieu Taponier, Delia Oniga, Theo Montoya
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SoundEloisa Arcila Fernandez, Estephany Cano, Marius Leftărache, Victor Miu, Marian Bălan, Dragoș Știrbu
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Language(s)Spanish
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