Film Movement have added a stocking stuffer acquisition by grabbing Carlos César Arbeláez’s debut film. The Colors of the Mountain. A film that has been floating around the Fall film festival circuit and was unknown us was filmed in Colombian mountainside with non-professional kid actors. If you’re into that sort of thing, then look out for the film sometime next summer.
Gist: Young Manuel lives with his hard-working farmer parents in the remote, mountainous region of the Colombian countryside. While the adults in their lives try to avoid both the armed military and the guerrilla fighters fighting each other in the region, Manuel and his friend Julian are obsessed with playing football any chance they get. Shortly after his birthday, the new ball Manuel received as a gift gets kicked off to a minefield, and he, Julian and their albino friend Poca Luz will do everything in their power to recover their prized belonging—an essential pat of their everyday lives and dreams.
Worth Noting: This won the New Directors Award at the San Sebastian Int’l Film Festival which is I imagine quite the feat for a top tier festival.
Do We Care?: We dig Latin American cinema, but watching the trailer below this is reminds us slightly of Majid Majidi’s symbolically overwrought films.