Cinema Releases - A Poet

Óscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry has brought him no glory. Unemployed and self-destructive, he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured poet.

After getting a teaching job, he meets Yurlady, a teenage girl with a poetical talent from a marginal family. To help her cultivate her gifts may bring him some redemption. But dragging her into the world of poets may not be the way.

Winner Prix du Jury Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2025

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 it won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for the its lead actress. 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. A Poet is his second feature film.

2025 - A POET – Cannes Un Certain Regard

2021 - AMPARO - Cannes Critics’ Week

2016 - MOTHER - Short film Competition Cannes Film Festival 2016

2014 - LEIDI - Cannes Film Festival 2014 - Short Film Palme d’Or