The Kings of the World

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The Kings of the World
File:The Kings of the World poster.jpg
Film poster
Directed by Laura Mora Ortega
Produced by Cristina Gallego
Paz Lázaro
Elisa Fernanda Pirir
Regina Solórzano
Mirlanda Torres
Written by Maria Camila Arias
Laura Mora Ortega
Starring Carlos Andrés Castañeda
Davison Florez
Brahian Acevedo
Cristian Campaña
Cristian David Duque
Music by Leonardo Heiblum
Alexis Ruiz
Cinematography David Gallego
Edited by Sebastian Hernandez
Gustavo Vasco
Production
company
Caracol Televisión
Ciudad Lunar Producciones
Dago García Producciones
Iris Productions
Tu Vas Voir Production
Talipot Studio
Mer Films
Distributed by Bteam Pictures (Spain)
Netflix (The Americas)
Release dates
 September 21, 2022 (Zinemaldia)
October 13, 2022 (Colombia)
January 4, 2023 (Netflix)
Running time
 103 minutes
Country
  • Colombia
  • Luxembourg
  • France
  • Mexico
  • Norway
Language Spanish

The Kings of the World (Spanish: Los reyes del mundo) is a 2022 internationally co-produced drama-road film directed by Laura Mora. Set in Medellín, the drama is about five teenage friends who live on the streets. As a result, they leave a Colombian city to start over in the countryside. The film premiered in September 2022 at the 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival where it won the Golden Shell for Best Picture.[1][2]

Synopsis

Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano live on the streets of Medellín. The five children no longer have any contact with their families. They form a kind of fraternal clan in which they have to make their way in a parallel world without laws. In doing so, they uphold ideals such as friendship and dignity, but also display disobedience and resistance. In a dangerous journey between delirium and nothingness, the group leaves the city and enters the depths of the Colombian interior. There they hope to find a piece of land that Rá inherited from his late grandmother. Like thousands of other Colombians, she was once violently expelled by the paramilitaries. After his death, Rá received the "promised land" through a government restitution program. The boys make friends that help them advance but also warn them of the dangers of their company. They also meet sex workers who provide them with short-term maternity care.[3][4]

Cast

  • Carlos Andrés Castañeda as Rá
  • Davison Florez as Sere
  • Brahian Acevedo as Nano
  • Cristian Campaña as Winny
  • Cristian David Duque as Culebro

Release

Festivals

The Kings of the World premiered on 21 September 2022 at the 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival.[5][6] The work was previously screened to international distributors at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, along with ten other critically acclaimed films.[7] Other invitations followed in the film festival programs of Zurich (September)[8] and Chicago (October).[9]

Theatrical

The film was theatrically released in Colombia on 13 October 2022, with opening attendance figures below expectations (28,117 admissions throughout the first 5 days of its theatrical run).[10]

International

On October 24, 2022, Netflix acquires the film for distribution in the Americas (except Colombia-Mexico)[11] and it will premiere on the platform on January 4, 2023.[12] Bteam Pictures will distribute in theaters in Spain.[13]

Reception

Cristóbal Soage (Cineuropa) praised the film as an "extraordinary work" and the director Mora "as one of the greatest talents on the modern Latin American film scene," as well as the young actors of the same name. It is "a hallucinogenic story as cruel and painful as it is fascinating". He also raved about David Gallego's camera work, which captures "the poignant beauty of the Colombian jungle [...] in all its splendor." Soage described the scenes between the boys and the sex workers as "particularly moving". "In the end, we feel that we have witnessed an important work, a portrait of a time and place as comprehensive and precise as it is poetic and moving," says the critic.[14]

Guy Lodge (Variety)[15] saw a "raw, offbeat coming-of-age drama" that transcends the sentimentality that tends to dominate the genre "with a delirious, even surreal energy in its five-story Medellin street children".

Awards

For The Kings of the World, Laura Mora won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, as well as the Feroz Zinemaldia Prize and the SIGNIS Prize from the World Catholic Association for the communication.[15] It has also been invited to international feature film competitions at the Zurich[8] and Chicago festivals.[9]

See also

References

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