"Mesmerizing. Alejandro Landes is a powerful new voice in cinema"

Guillermo Del Toro (filmmaker)
  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Alejandro Landes
  • Colombia, Argentina 2019
  • 102 minutes
  • Spanish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Columbia's Academy Award Nominee

Belonging to a rebel group called “the Organization,” a band of child soldiers, brandishing guns and war names like Rambo, Wolf and Bigfoot, occupies a derelict ruin atop a remote mountain where they train themselves, watch over a milk cow, and hold hostage a kidnapped American engineer, Doctora. But after an attack forces them to abandon their base, playtime is over for the motley young crew.

“Overpoweringly tense and deeply mad… something between 'Apocalypse Now', 'Lord of the Flies' and 'Embrace of the Serpent’” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian.

Filmography: Porfirio (2011), Cocalero (2007).

The film contains disturbing scenes.


  • Director Alejandro Landes
  • Production Alejandro Landes, Fernando Epstein, Santiago Zapata, Cristina Landes
  • Script Alejandro Landes, Alexis Dos Santos
  • Cinematography Jasper Wolf
  • Editing Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Ted Guard, Santiago Otheguy
  • Music Mica Levi
  • Festivals Sundance (Special Jury Award), Berlinale, San Sebastian, Transilvania (Best Film Award), London
  • Actors Julianne Nicholson, Moisés Arias, Julian Giraldo, Sofía Buenaventura
  • Source Le Pacte, Paris