A Poet
2025 – COLOMBIA / GERMANY / SWEDEN – 120 MINUTES – 1.66:1 – 5.1 AUDIO – SPANISH WITH ENGLISH & FRENCH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY SIMÓN MESA SOTO
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Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country and embodying the cliché of the tortured artist.
When an opportunity arises to mentor a young student, Oscar is offered a fragile chance at redemption — if he doesn’t sabotage it first.
In a performance marked by darkly comic pathos, first-time actor Ubeimar Rios stars in A Poet, Un Certain Regard Jury Prize-winning filmmaker Simón Mesa Soto’s raw and riotous farce about how good deeds are often met with the universe’s idea of cruel — and unusually poetic — punishment.