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Anhell69

Theo Montoya
Colombia, Romania, France, Germany
2022
72 min
Dutch Premiere
Festival history

A few years back, director Theo Montoya cast several people from Medellín’s queer scene for his first feature film, a vampire movie about a dystopian city where ghosts coexist with the living. He chose charismatic 21-year-old Camilo Najar for the starring role, but a week later Camilo died of an overdose. The director lost many friends in the same manner.

Montoya previously filmed a portrait of Camilo in his powerful, punky short Son of Sodom (2020). In Anhell69, he dives deeper into a no-future generation torn apart by drugs and suicide in a city defined by violence. All hope is gone, and getting stoned is all that’s left. Montoya sees Medellín as a ghost town lost in the mountains, a place where you can’t see the horizon, and from which you can never escape.

After attending more funerals than birthdays among his circle of friends, Montoya descends into an existential void. But he picks up the camera again anyway, and—in emulation of his great inspiration Victor Gaviria—makes a film without borders or genders: a “trans film” about all those people who don’t belong to anything or anyone.

Credits
Director
Production
    Bianca Oana,
    David Hurst,
    Theo Montoya ,
    Juan Pablo Castrillón for Desvio Visual
Co-production
    Balthasar Busmann,
    Maximilian Haslberger for Amerikafilm
    Balthasar Busmann,
    Maximilian Haslberger for Amerikafilm
Editing
Sound Design
    Eloisa Arcila Fernandez,
    Estephany Cano,
    Marius Leftărache,
    Victor Miu,
    Marian Bălan,
    Dragoș Știrbu
    Eloisa Arcila Fernandez,
    Estephany Cano,
    Marius Leftărache,
    Victor Miu,
    Marian Bălan,
    Dragoș Știrbu
Music
    Vlad Feneșan,
    Marius Leftărache
    Vlad Feneșan,
    Marius Leftărache
World Sales
    Square Eyes
    Square Eyes
Screening copy
    Square Eyes
    Square Eyes

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