Nuestro Monte Luna

Built on a hillside, the Colombian village of Choachi becomes, in this first feature film by Pablo Alvarez-Mesa (Jelena’s Song and Speaking Into the Air), the setting for a coming-of-age story with deep political ramifications. While the mayor of Bogotá has decided to ban bullfighting – considered a barbaric colonialist symbol – young devotees in Choachi keep training every day, preserving the fading traditional sport and dreaming of a glorious future away from the mountains and their painful, impoverished past. Capturing the smallest details, the filmmaker is not content to observe his characters. He accompanies them on a road to adulthood full of hopes and fears, the building blocks of tomorrow’s Colombia.