The Mexican film I’m No Longer Here / Ya no estoy aquí, winner of the Best Film Awards at the Morelia and Cairo Film Festivals and shot in Monterrey and New York City, will premiere next Wednesday, May 27 exclusively on Netflix.
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.
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