On 20, 21 and 23 of this month of November at 7 pm, Casa América joins the LesGaiCineMad 2024 Festival, with Alma del desierto, Desde allá y Reas.
Since 2003, Casa de América and the LGBTIQ+ International Film Festival organized by the Fundación Triángulo have joined forces to offer the best Ibero-American cinema in the fight for equality and sexual and gender diversity.
This year, two outstanding feature films from the recent production will be screened, the documentaries Alma del desierto (pictured) and Reas.
In this edition, we also wanted to recover the Venezuelan fiction feature Desde allá, the thrilling film with which the Venezuelan screenwriter and director Lorenzo Vigas debuts, an emblematic title of Ibero-American cinema and the first Spanish-speaking film to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Throughout these years, the programming designed between Casa de América and the Festival, always with an emphasis on Latin America, has opened a window to the diversity of LGTBIQ+ themed film production in Spanish. It has also been characterized by the plurality of themes, origins, history and evolution of the movement with the aim of raising awareness, with a global vision, the complex universe of LGBTIQ+ people.
On Wednesday, the 20th, the feature film Alma del desierto will be screened in the Iberia Room of Casa América, a Colombian-Brazilian production directed and written by Mónica Taboada-Tapia. The film tells how in the arid landscapes of La Guajira, Colombia, a wayu transgender woman, in the third act of her life, knows that her time is running out and wants to change her existence. Soul of the Desert emerges as a story of resilience, a symbol of hope and an ardent struggle for justice.
On Thursday 21 the turn will be for Desde allá, a Venezuelan-Mexican film directed and written in 2015 by Lorenzo Vigas. Armando is a middle-aged man who attracts young men to his home by offering them money. Do not want to touch, just look from an exact distance… The director Lorenzo Vigas will make a virtual presentation and before the screening there will be a dialogue between the producer Rodolfo Cova and the journalist and writer Violeta Medina.
Reas, a co-production of Argentina, Germany and Switzerland, directed and written this year 2024 by Lola Arias, will be screened on Saturday 23. This is a film starring trans women and people who have been detained in different prisons in Argentina deprived of liberty for years.
Tickets can be purchased at the Casa de América Information Point one hour before the start of the screening.
