La Arcadia is a shelter/boarding school in Bogotá, Colombia, for teenage girls who had been homeless or “had a complicated past”. Twenty of its residents, interviewed individually, were tasked to describe their new imaginary classmate, Alis. How does she look, what does she like. Why she is here. What will become of her in the future. As the film’s creators explain, there was no preparation; all girls created/improvised their own versions of Alis during the interview. When asked at the end of the interview if Alis really exists, they were affirmative. #AlisExiste.
Alis was the first Documental del Mes of 2024. Although the film is in Spanish, I wish they put the Spanish subtitles too, for at times it was difficult to understand the dialogue.
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