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AMPARO

By Simón MESA SOTO

Drama - Completed 2022

In 1998, single mother Amparo rushes to save her teenage son after he is recruited and deployed to the Colombian army.

Festivals
& Awards

Cannes 2021

Semaine de la Critique

Chicago IFF 2021

New Directors Competition

Fondation Louis Roederer 2021

Prix Fondation Louis Roederer de la Révélation

Festival de cine de Lima 2021

Premio del Jurado de la Crítica Internacional

Festival Internacional de Cine de Punta del Este 2021

Mejor Actriz, Competencia Iberoamericana

Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián 2021

Horizontes Latinos

Premios Macondo 2022

Best Film

Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana 2022

Best First Feature

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- COLOMBIA, SWEDEN, GERMANY, QATAR
- Languages
- SPANISH-COLOMBIAN
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Simón MESA SOTO
- Producer(s)
- Manuel RUIZ (Medio de Contención Producciones), Simón MESA SOTO (Ocúltimo), Juan SARMIENTO G.
- Synopsis
- Colombia, 1998. Amparo's eldest son, Elías, is now 18 years old. He has qualified for compulsory military service and has been assigned to a remote battalion in a conflict region. Amparo does not want her boy to be taken away. In one day, the time she has before he is conscripted, Amparo sets out on a quest to prevent her son's departure. She contacts a man on the black market who can change the outcome and get his military passbook, a very common transaction in those days, but the cost is too high for a working-class single mother. A decision that brings her face to face with a society ruled by men, corruption, and war. And which questions her values as a mother and as a woman.