Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #93. Monos – Alejandro Landes

Monos

Alejandro Landes’ sophomore feature, kidnap thriller Monos, features an international cast as a Colombian-Argentinean-Uruguayan-Dutch-German co-production (produced out of each country’s respective financiers from La Franja, Campo Cine, Mutante Cine, Lemming Film and Pandro). Landes produces alongside Fernando Epstein, Cristina Landes, Santiagao A. Zapata, and a slew of co-producers (including Diego Lerman and Nicolas Avruj of Campo Cine). Filmed in Colombia, the feature stars Julianne Nicholson (also serving as associate producer), Moisés Arias, Julian Giraldo, and Sofía Buenaventura. Landes’ 2011 debut Porfirio premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in Directors’ Fortnight.

Gist: Co-written by Argentina’s Alexis Dos Santos, a group of child revolutionary soldiers hold an American woman captive atop a desolate mountaintop.

Release Date/Prediction: Landes will premiere Monos in the World Narrative Dramatic Competition program at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.