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Theatrical Release of A POET


“Hilarious.
A truly unique cinematic experience””
— Murtada Elfadl, Variety

A POET / UN POETA
A film by Simón Mesa Soto
(Colombia, 2025. 123 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

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. 

Opens, Friday, January 30
IFC Center in New York City, and Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles
Tickets and more information: https://apoet.film/

Watch the trailer:

 
 
Source:: https://apoet.film/
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