Lillah Halla
Director, Screenwriter
- Edition
- Berlin 2021 Buenos Aires 2020
- Country
- Germany
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Online
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- Lillah Halla is interested in
- #Collaborative Working #Human Rights #Hybrid Formats #Politics #Queer Cinema (...)
"Menarca is a biting film on every level, a reinterpretation of the myth of the vagina dentata ("the toothed vagina") and a welcomed feminist call to arms. The poison of toxic masculinity threatens (...) Nanã and Mel, who are saved by a fish and a woman: Lillah Halla’s perfect high-wire act between the magic realism of a fairytale and a realistic, stifling atmosphere (ageless, though it echoes present-day Brazil) infers the very essence and turns up the heat before the punk explosion finale." written by Léo SeoSanto, Semaine de La Critique Cannes 2020. more: www.lillahalla.com
