Anhell69

Running time: 72 mins

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.