A POET / UN POETA
A film by Simón Mesa Soto
(Colombia, 123 min. 2025. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Colombia’s Best International Film submission for the 2026 Academy Awards 

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, where he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist. However, the opportunity to mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn’t screw it up first. In a performance marked by darkly comic pathos, first-time actor Ubeimar Rios stars in Simón Mesa Soto’s Un Certain Regard Jury Prize-winner A Poet, a raw and riotous farce about how good deeds are often met with the universe’s idea of cruel and unusually poetic punishment. 

Sunday, December 7, 3pm
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, New York City

Tickets and more information: https://movingimage.org/event/a-poet/