Having spent three films studying middle-class frustrations, hypocrisies and sufferings, Anahi Berneri brings it back down to the streets with Alanis, a punchy and entirely unsentimental study of a few days in the life of a young Buenos Aires sex worker that’s as defiantly non-miserabilist as its heroine. Driven by a cracklingly energetic, committed performance by Sofia Gala Castiglione (more commonly known in Argentina as Sofia Gala) as a character whom we very quickly start to care about, events come at the viewer entirely through the heroine’s dislocating perspective, making the film a viewing experience of great immediacy, one with...