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.

• DirectorSimón Mesa Soto
• Release28 August 2025
• Genre
  Comedy / Drama
• Duration2h
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  8.4
  6 reviews
• Productions

  Ocúltimo, Medio de Contención Producciones, ma.ja.de. Fiction, Momento Film, ZDF/Arte, Film i Väst, Das kleine Fernsehspiel