A POET
Written and Directed by Simón Mesa Soto
Starring Ubeimar Rios, Rebeca Andrade
**Winner, Un Certain Regard Jury Prize, 2025 Cannes Film Festival**
North American Premiere – Special Presentations
2025 Toronto International Film Festival
Official TIFF Screening Schedule
Thu, Sept 4 at 11:55 AM at Scotiabank – P&I
Tue, Sept 9 at 5:00 PM at Scotiabank – North American Premiere followed by Q&A
Fri, Sept 12 at 6:15 PM at Scotiabank
*TIFF P&Is are for accredited press and industry only
Writer-director Simón Mesa Soto is available for select interviews
Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist. However, the opportunity to mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn’t screw it up first. In a performance marked by darkly comic pathos, first-time actor Ubeimar Rios stars in Simón Mesa Soto’s Un Certain Regard Jury Prize-winner A Poet, a raw and riotous farce about how good deeds are often met with the universe’s idea of cruel and unusually poetic punishment.
Writer/Director: Simón Mesa Soto
Starring: Ubeimar Rios, Rebeca Andrade, Guillermo Cardona, Humberto Restrepo, Alisson Correa, Margarita Soto
Producer: Juan Sarmiento G., Manuel Ruiz Montealegre, Simón Mesa Soto
US Distributor: 1-2 Special
2025 / Colombia / 123 min