Los Hongos
(Los Hongos)
Oscar Ruiz Navia | Fiction, Drama
2014 | 95 minutes | Colombia
During the day, street artists RAS and Calvin band together with other graffiti artists to paint a tribute to student demonstrators.
Synopsis
During the day RAS is a construction worker. At night after work he tags the walls of his neighborhood east of Cali. RAS can’t sleep and is constantly day-dreaming. His mother, María, a sweet woman who migrated to the city from the jungle on the Pacific side of Colombia, worries that her son has been bewitched and will end up insane.
When RAS is fired from his job for stealing several cans of paint, which he is using to create a huge mural on the lot next to his house, he searches the city for his best friend Calvin, another young graffiti artist, who studies fine arts but is having some difficulties due to his parents’ divorce and his grandmother’s recurring cancer.
Like a couple of mushrooms, RAS and Calvin will sprout and wander aimlessly through the city on a journey of no return, infecting the world around them with immense freedom and hope.
Reviews
"It is a true blessing that 'Los Hongos' avoids extreme violence or the low blow of unnecessary death. For contemporary Latin American cinema, this seems to be a genuine act of resistance to the imperatives of the global film market." - Diego Brodersen, Diario Página 12
Citation
Main credits
Ruiz Navia, Oscar (film director)
Ruiz Navia, Oscar (film producer)
Ruiz Navia, Oscar (screenwriter)
Bustamante Escobar, Diana (film producer)
Polanco Uribe, Gerylee (film producer)
Augusto Acevedo, César (screenwriter)
Marquinez Angulo, Jovan Alexis (actor)
Buenaventura Tascón, Calvin (actor)
Estrada, Atala (actor)
Ruiz Montoya, Gustavo (actor)
Other credits
Director of photography, Sofia Oggioni Hatty; editor, Felipe Guerrero; music, La Llegada del Dios Rata [and 5 others].
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Pragda subjects
Criminal Justice
Culture + Identity
Economics + Social Class Issues
Labor Studies
Sociology
South America
Urban Studies
Visual Arts
Youth
Keywords
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Festivals
Toronto International Film Festival; Locarno Film Festival
DIRECTOR: Oscar Ruiz Navia
NATIONALITY: Colombia
YEAR: 2014
GENRE: Fiction, Drama
LANGUAGE: Spanish
COLOR / B&W: Color
GRADE LEVEL: High School, College, Adult
SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE
AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE
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