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PEPE
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October 10, 2024 to October 15, 2024
As part of Festival du nouveau cinéma - 2024 Edition
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The voice of a deceased hippopotamus opens the film with a warning that it can explain very little, except for the fact that it was captured in a river in Namibia and then brought to Colombia by the famous cocaine trafficker, Pablo Escobar. The animal, nicknamed "Pepe" by the Colombian press, tells its story in fragmented pieces, as if its soul is drifting above a river where fiction intertwines with documentary and experimentation, where black and white flirts with colour, and where seriousness juggles with the fantastic. Behind this discontinuous cine-poem lies a fierce critique of capitalism and colonialism. Winner of the Best Direction award at the Berlinale.
Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias
2024 - Feature Film - 122 minutes - Dominican Republic / France / Germany / Namibia
Languages: Afrikaans, German, Spanish, Mbukushu
Subtitle languages: English, French