There are films that arrive before they arrive. That begin to exist in conversation, in expectations, in that intuition that there is something there. Un poeta, by Simón Mesa Soto, is one of them, and that is why, even before its release, we want to open a space to listen to it.

Next Wednesday, April 15 at 7:15 PM, we join a very special preview event: a conversation between its director and Carla Simón (yes, the director of Estiu 1993, Alcarràs and Romería), which we will broadcast in the cinema as a prelude to the film’s release on April 17. A conversation between two filmmakers who understand cinema as a place from which to look at the world with sensitivity, but also with a certain discomfort. Two perspectives that, each in their own way, approach the intimate in order to speak about the collective.

Because Un poeta is precisely about that. About Óscar Restrepo, a man who once showed great promise —or so it seemed— and who now survives as best he can between classes, routines and a certain melancholy. But it is also about something harder to name: persistence. About continuing to believe in poetry —and in what poetry represents— in a world that seems to have stopped doing so. There is something deeply moving in that idea. And something political too.

It is no coincidence that the film has screened at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize, nor that it has been recognized at the San Sebastián International Film Festival or selected as Colombia’s submission to the Oscars. Nor that those who have already seen it speak of it with that mix of enthusiasm and surprise that appears when a film does not just meet expectations, but exceeds them. A tragicomedy —yes—, but one that lingers.

Starring Ubeimar Ríos, Rebeca Andrade and Guillermo Cardona, and distributed by Atalante, Un poeta will arrive in cinemas on April 17. But before that, we have the chance to get closer to its universe from within, to listen to how it is conceived, how it is built, and how it doubts. And that, in itself, is already cinema.

See you on the 15th.

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