A POET

(UN POETA)
Director: Simón Mesa Soto
+13
Duration: 125 min
Year: 2025
Countries: Colombia, Germany, Sweden
Genres: Drama / Comedy
V.O. Spa / Sub Eng

AWARDS
Cannes Film Festival (2025) — Un Certain Regard Jury Prize
‍Melbourne International Film Festival (2025) — Bright Horizons Award Munich Film Festival (2025) — CineCoPro Award
San Sebastián International Film Festival (2025) — Horizons AwardFestival de Cine de Lima PUCP (2025) — Mejor Película de la Competencia Latinoamericana (Ficción) 

NOMINATIONS
Hamptons International Film Festival (2025) — Golden Starfish Award, Narrative Feature 
Bergen International Film Festival (2025) — Cinema Extraordinaire 
Montclair Film Festival (MFF, 2025) — Fiction Feature Competition 

SYNOPSIS
Oscar Restrepo’s (Ubeimar Rios) obsession with poetry has brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows. Meeting Yurlady (Rebeca Andrade), a teenage girl from humble roots, and helping her cultivate her talent brings some light to his days. But dragging her into the world of poets may not be the way.

‍BIOGRAFÍA
Simón Mesa Soto is a Colombian director, screenwriter and producer. He studied Audiovisual Communication at the University of Antioquia and later pursued a Master's degree at the London Film School. His thesis film, Leidi, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2014. With his next short film, Mother, he was again selected in the Official Competition of the Cannes Film Festival 2016. Both short films were widely screened at festivals around the world. Amparo, his first feature film, premiered at the Cannes Critics' Week 2021, where she won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award. The film has toured more than fifty film festivals around the world and has won awards in Havana, Chicago, Lima and Punta del Este, among other festivals. Amparo was the big winner of the Colombian Film Academy's Macondo Awards 2022, winning seven awards including Best Director and Best Film. Un Poeta is his second feature film.