Teatro de guerra | Theatre of War
Forum 2018
ARG/ESP 2018
by: Lola Arias
Teatro de guerra | Theatre of War
Forum 2018
ARG/ESP 2018
by: Lola Arias
Teatro de guerra | Theatre of War
Forum 2018
ARG/ESP 2018
by: Lola Arias
Teatro de guerra | Theatre of War
Forum 2018
ARG/ESP 2018
by: Lola Arias
Lola Arias
Feb 16, 2018Lola Arias
The director of the Argentinian film.
Forum – Teatro de guerra | Theatre of War
Feb 16, 2018Gema Juarez-Allen, Manuel Abramovich, Lola Arias
The team during Q&A.
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Director Lola Arias on her Film
The Falklands War lasted from April to June of 1982 and took the lives of 655 Argentinian and 255 British soldiers. It ended in Argentina’s military defeat and in territorial claims on both sides that remain contentious to this day.
Thirty-five years after the end of the war, Argentinian artist and director Lola Arias invites veterans to look back – together, either in pairs or in dialogue with the camera. The British and the Argentinians face each other as former enemies, but also form an ensemble, such as when they re-enact a battle scene in an abandoned building that resembles a theatre. Maps, faded magazines, and footage of the surreal sites where combat took place provide visual points of departure and cinematic spaces for their stories of fear – fear of both dying and of killing – and of the repercussions of a war that left its mark on all of them. But Teatro de guerra doesn’t just confine itself to the past: in staged encounters with young actors the same age that Marcelo, Jim and the others were back then, the film also asks how memories are transmitted, and how they live on.
by
Lola Arias
Argentina / Spain 2018
Spanish, English, Nepali
Documentary form82’ · Colour
World premiere
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1976. She studied Literature and Playwriting. Arias is a writer, theatre director, fine artist, musician and performer.
Filmography2014 Veterans Installation; 5 short films: The Swimmer, 9 min., The Voice, 9 min., The Sinking of the Belgrano, 11 min., Last Day of War, 9 min., The Diary of a Soldier, 50 min. 2018 Teatro de guerra (Theatre of War)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018