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A POET

Simón Mesa Soto

  • 123 minutes
  • 2025
  • Spanish with English subtitles

      Friday, February 27
    • 4pm and 7pm
    • Saturday, February 28
    • 4pm and 7pm
    • Sunday, March 1
    • 1pm and 4pm
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    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.

THE LOVE THAT REMAINS

Hlynur Pálmason

  • 109 minutes
  • 2025
  • English and Icelandic with English subtitles

      Sunday, March 1
    • 7pm
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    Anna, an artist, and Magnús, a fisherman, live with their three children and charismatic sheepdog in the quiet grandeur of the Icelandic countryside. As the fractures in their marriage come to the surface, the couple try to hold onto the afterimages of a life together and make sense of a deep and lingering devotion. Filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason (Godland) brings surprising humor and emotional weight to this gorgeous, intimate, and brilliantly expansive scenes from a marriage, amidst the majestic backdrop of the changing seasons.

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