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Specter

PEPE

• Director: Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias
• DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, NAMIBIA, GERMANY, FRANCE  / 2024 / DCP / Colour and B&W / 122’ / Spanish, Afrikaans, Mbukushu, German; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias
• Director of Photography: Camilo Soratti, Roman Lechapelier, Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias
• Editing: Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias
• Music: Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias
• Cast: Jhon Narváez, Sor María Ríos, Fareed Matjila, Harmony Ahalwa, Jorge Puntillón García
• Producer: Pablo Lozano, Tanya Valette, Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias
• Production Co.: Monte & Culebra
• World Sales: Monte & Culebra

2024 Berlin Best Director

In the jungle of Colombia, Pepe, a young hippo was killed. It was the first and last of its kind to be slain in the Americas. Between sounds and bellows, his ghost narrates his story, both authentic and false, serious and at the same time playful, in the oral tradition of these communities. Another story to add to the imaginary of these neighbouring towns, full of macho fights, dictatorships, poetic memories, homesickness, and beings that have died without ever knowing where they really were. Between encounters and misunderstandings, epiphanies and sadness, we enter an unpredictable world full of stories replete with even more stories. Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias had won the Special Jury Prize at the Istanbul Film Festival in 2018 with Cocote.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.