After winning the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival few days ago, the Colombian film The Kings of the World / Los reyes del mundo has won the awards for Best Film both at the Zurich and Biarritz film festivals in Europe this weekend. The second feature film by director Laura Mora (Killing Jesús) was also announced this week as Colombia’s official submission for the 95th Academy Awards.
Produced by Cristina Gallego (Birds of Passage, and the Oscar-nominated 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.
