The Colombian Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences has announced that Laura Mora’s The Kings of the World / Los reyes del mundo, will represent the South American country at the 95th Academy Awards in the competition for Best International Film. The second film by Mora recently had its world premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival where it won the Golden Shell for Best Film.
Produced by Cristina Gallego (Birds of Passage, The Embrace of the Serpent), the film follows five Medellín teenagers from the streets on a desperate journey of survival as it portrays with strong poetic undertones the reality of the injustice and exclusion suffered by those who lack basic rights such as a name, a family, a place and a date of birth. Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano, five street kids from Medellin, five kings without a kingdom, with no law and no family, are looking for the promised land. The five will embark on a trip to claim a piece of land that Rá inherited after a long process of land restitution.
Colombia has nabbed only one nomination since it started submitting films to the Oscars, that was in 2015 for The Embrace of the Serpent by Ciro Guerra.
