Lola Arias

Born in Buenos Aires in 1976, Lola Arias is a filmmaker, playwright, director, and multidisciplinary artist. Her work always plays with the overlap between reality and fiction. Since 2007, she has been working in the field of documentary theatre, creating more than twelve plays in collaboration with people who have lived through different historical events or experiences (war veterans, former communists, Bulgarian children, etc.). In 2014, Arias began her film career with the video installation Veterans, the starting point for her multidisciplinary artistic project on the Falklands War. In this series, veterans reconstruct their experience of the war in a space they inhabit in the present. In the same vein, her first feature film Theatre of War (2018) was selected for the 68th Berlinale Forum.