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Special Features: 2019 Oscar® Selection, Colombia
This breathtaking survivalist saga set on a remote mountain in Latin America tracks a group of young soldiers and rebels with names like Rambo, Smurf, Bigfoot, Wolf and Boom-Boom who keep watch over an American hostage, Doctora (Julianne Nicholson, I, TONYA). The teenage commandos perform military training exercises by day and indulge in youthful hedonism by night – an unconventional family bound together under a shadowy force known only as The Organization. After an ambush drives them into the jungle, both the mission and the intricate bonds between the group begin to disintegrate. Order descends into chaos, and the strong begin to prey on the weak. With a rapturous score by Mica Levi (JACKIE, UNDER THE SKIN), Colombian-Ecuadorian director Alejandro Landes (PORFIRIO) examines the chaos and absurdity of war from the unique perspective of adolescence. (Note adapted from NEON.) Winner, World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award, 2019 Sundance Film Festival; Winner, Best Original Score, 2019 BAFICI; Official Selection, 2019 Berlin, San Francisco, Seattle and Karlovy Vary film festivals. DIR/SCR/PROD Alejandro Landes; SCR Alexis Dos Santos; PROD Fernando Epstein, Cristina Landes, Santiago A. Zapata. Colombia/Argentina/Netherlands/Germany/Sweden/Uruguay, 2019, color, 102 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
No AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 102 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, September 13, 2019
Genre: Thriller
