Location
Organizer
qFLIXphiladelphia
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‘One in a Thousand’
Date
- Jun 21 - 28, 2021
- Expired!
Time
- All Day
When Iris meets Renata, in the projects of One Thousand, she is immediately and inexplicably attracted to her. The new presence of Renata makes everybody uncomfortable, and the prejudices are expanded. In the face of hostility, the two girls and their small group of friends are the queer resistance who turn those run-down architectures into witnesses, but also dangerous traps, and their encounters are a strong light in the middle of the dark neighborhood.
Director Statement Everything shown in this film existed at some point in time and still does: this is the experience of many young people living in my neighborhood in Corrientes. Along the dark hallways of One Thousand, the biggest love came by once, also the good friends who helped shape a queer resistance in the periphery. I believe that we need more images that come close to things nowadays instead of lecturing on them, bringing about intense moments between the neighborhood and the teenage bodies that resist and defile the fake condemnation of living on the edge on a daily basis. The film is an exploration of the voices and bodies that inhabit these realities. It is also a reflection on the bright aspects of these encounters that help ease the hostility of adolescence and also help release the desire in all its forms. This film is built on the power of these encounters that defend a dissident way of life in a northern province of Argentina–unique and bright, but always on the verge of disappearing.