Cannes 2021

AMPARO - CRITICS' WEEK

by Simón Mesa Soto

2021 / COLOMBIA / SWEDEN / QATAR 95' - World Premiere

with Sandra Melissa Torres, Diego Alejandro Tobón, Luciana Gallego, John Jairo Montoya

Production company: Ocultimo
Co-production companies: Momento Film, Flare Film
with the support of: Cine Crea Colombia, Swedish Film Institute, Doha Film Institute, Magin Comunicaciones, Goethe Institut Colombia

World Sales: The Match Factory

Colombia, 1998. Amparo, a single mother, struggles to free her teenage son after he is drafted by the army and assigned to a war zone. She is thrown into a race against time in a society ruled by men, corruption and violence.

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