Barrio Triste
The feature debut from Bad Bunny collaborator STILLZ and featuring the first original score by Arca, BARRIO TRISTE is a generational portrait of Colombia’s forgotten youth, both personal and specific in its perspective, yet unclassifiable in its formal audacity. Accentuated by Arca’s intense, shape-shifting sonic palette, STILLZ boldly navigates the liminal spaces between despair and transcendence in “one of the year’s great debuts” (The Film Stage).
In an impoverished neighborhood of 1980s Medellín, a group of disaffected teens steals a TV reporter’s camera to document their lives. Piercing the derelict landscape’s oppressive atmosphere with disarming reflections on dreams and death, their understanding of reality and hope begins to erode as reports of mysterious lights falling from the sky coincide with temporal and spatial distortions.With Juan Pablo BaenaSamuel VelazquezTomas Tinoco HiguitaBryan Erlin GarciaSamuel Andres CelisBrahian AcecedoSamuel RuizEstiven SalazarJose Arley Marin Gonzalez.
“This is a film that understands that the truest picture of society comes from the eyes of those it neglects, courtesy of the outcasts who plunder airtime from the State itself. “ (Roger Ebert.com)
Tuesday, August 11
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
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Thursday, August 13
Doors 8:45 pm | Movie 9:15 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
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BARRIO TRISTE (Matías Vásquez, 2026 / 84 mins / NR / Spanish w. EST) In an impoverished neighborhood of 1980s Medellín, a group of disaffected teens steals a TV reporter’s camera to document their lives.
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On the outskirts of Medellín, Colombia in the late 1980s, local residents report strange lights descending from the sky. When a reporter arrives to investigate, a ragtag group of teens from a lawless neighbourhood storm the scene and steal his camera. In the hands of its new owners, the device records a mesmerising plunge into their frantic existence.
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