A Male (2022)

Original title

Un varón

Directed by

Fabián Hernández

Genre

drama film

Country

Colombia, Germany, France, Netherlands

Runtime

1h 22m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenager in a rough urban neighborhood must navigate a code of toughness and violence to survive. He faces constant pressure to prove his masculinity against the law of the strongest.

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What happens

A Male (Spanish: Un varón) is a 2022 drama film written and directed by Fabián Hernández Alvarado in his directorial debut. Starring Felipe Ramírez Espitia. It is about a teenager who will have to face the ferocity of his neighborhood where the codes of masculinity and the law of the strongest is mandatory to survive. It is a co-production between Colombia, Germany, France and the Netherlands. A Male had its world premiere on May 24, 2022, at Directors' Fortnight at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Caméra d'Or and the Queer Palm. It was selected as the Colombian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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