French distribution rights for Simón Mesa Soto’s “A Poet” have been bought to Epicentre Films forward of the movie’s world premiere at Cannes within the Un Certain Regard part. Luxbox is dealing with world gross sales.
Epicentre’s Daniel Chabannes and Corentin Sénéchal mentioned: “ ‘A Poet’ was an instant ‘coup de coeur’ for us! It is pure poetry in the service of cinema.”
The drama, shot in Medellin, Colombia, follows Oscar Restrepo, whose obsession with poetry has introduced him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet within the shadows. Meeting Yurlady, a teenage woman from humble roots, and serving to her domesticate her expertise brings some mild to his days. But dragging her into the world of poets is probably not the best way.
“A Poet” is Mesa Soto’s second characteristic movie after “Amparo,” which was offered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2021 and gained the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for the actor Sandra Melissa Torres.
Both his quick movies, “Mother” (2016) and “Leidi” (2014), competed in Cannes and “Leidi” gained the quick movie Palme d’Or.
The producers on “A Poet” are Juan Sarmiento G. and Mesa Soto at Ocúltimo in Colombia; and Manuel Ruiz Montealegre at Medio de Contención Producciones in Colombia. Sarmiento G. can be the movie’s cinematographer.
The coproducers are Katharina Bergfeld, Heino Deckert (Majade Fiction, Germany); David Herdies, Michael Krotkiewski (Momento Film, Sweden); Film I Väst (Sweden); and ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel/ARTE (Germany).
The forged is led by Ubeimar Rios, Rebeca Andrade and Guillermo Cardona.
