Winner of the Best Film Award at the Morelia Film Festival, Fernando Frías’s electrifying second feature follows a street gang from Monterrey named “Los Terkos." Spending their days listening to slowed-down cumbia music, attending dance parties, and showing off their outfits, hairstyles, and gang alliances, the members call themselves Kolombianos for their mix of cholo culture with Colombian music. Ulises, their leader, tries to protect his friends from a quickly evolving drug-political war, but after a misunderstanding with a local cartel he’s forced to migrate to New York City. There he tries to assimilate, but when Ulises learns that his gang and the whole Kolombia culture is under threat, he questions his place in America and longs to return home.
I’M NO LONGER HERE / YA NO ESTOY AQUÍ
A film by Fernando Frías
(Mexico, 2019, 106 min. In Spanish and English with English subtitles)
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