Prayer for Tending Death
Una oración para acompañar la muerte
A queer performance for transforming violence into healing. A traditional dance and its costumes to counter colonial legacies. A peaceful ritual for diluting the imposing masculinity of the cockfighting arena, their sharp damaging spurs, their intense cigar sucking. The Nicaraguan multidisciplinary artist Elyla, amidst masks and fumes, creates a purifying and festive prayer, a serene ceremony of alternativity for tending death.
– Miquel Martí Freixas
Also in this combined programme
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Correct Me If I’m Wrong
The filmmaker documents how their family resorts to spiritual interventions against their queer identity
Content Guidance
This film contains content on potentially sensitive topics.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Nicaragua
- Year
- 2024
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 12'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
