Thursday, March 10, 2022, 19:00 – Tel Aviv Cinematheque – Tickets
Leading Ladies
Director & Writer: Ruth Caudeli
Producer: Sara Larrota, Ruth Caudeli
Cast: Ana María Otálora, Silvia Varón, Marcela Robledo, Diana Wiswell, Ana María Cuéllar
Colombia, 2021, 81 min, Spanish with Hebrew and English subtitles
Festivals:
Malaga International Film Festival 2021 – Jury Special Mention ZonaZine Competition
Boston Wicked Queer 2021
Toronto Inside Out 2021
Nantes CinéPride 2021
Barcelona Mostra Fire!! 2021
Transition Queer Film Festival Vienna 2021
OutFest Los Angeles 2021
Prism Film Festival Austin 2021
Ruth Caudeli’s new film manages to describe a lesbian social dinamyc without over doing it or becoming a cliche. The film “Leading Ladies” is an intense drama full of tension and memories.
Five women gather for a dinner party where dinner isn’t the only thing you eat. The meeting is full of resentment, emotions and barely contained sexual desire. The complex relationships between those women weave together in surprising ways that will make the audience keep guessing at how it all will end. The film gives each of the five heroines a perspective of the happenings, until the true nature of the friends is revealed. The big question is: will they still be friends at the end of the night?
Ruth Caudeli (“Second Star on the Right”) continues to give film lovers current feminine stories that are exciting and thrilling, and is on the fast track to become one of the most important filmmakers working in Latin America today.