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The City of Wild Beasts (La ciudad de las fieras)
Directed by Henry Rincón
Colombia, Ecuador
2021
95 mins


Tato is an orphan adrift, a young lover of rap. Along with his friends Pitu and La Crespa, he seeks to resist and find a different alternative to death and crime through the art of hip hop, participating in street jam battles.
Tato has to run from his neighborhood, and his only option is to leave the city and live with Octavio, a grandfather and flower grower whom he doesn't know.
Two generations, two ways of life, and a continuous feeling of loss, death, and loneliness rain over Tato's life in his struggle to survive and find his own identity.
