Monos

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Directed by Alejandro Landes
Produced by Alejandro Landes, Fernando Epstein, Cristina Landes, and Santiago A. Zapata
Screenplay by Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos Santos Story by Alejandro Landes

With: Sofia Buenaventura, Moises Arias, Laura Castrillón, Deiby Rueda, Paul Cubides, Sneider Castro, Karen Quintero, Julian Giraldo, Wilson Salazar, Jorge Román, Valeria Diana Solomonoff, and Julianne Nicholson

Cinematography: Jasper Wolf
Editing: Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Ted Guard, and Santiago Otheguy
Music: Mica Levi

Runtime: 102 min
Release Date: 15 August 2019
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color: Color

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Fantastic performances and lush cinematography enrich this dream/nightmare vision of child soldiers living in the mountains of Columbia. An original blending of Lord of the Flies, Los Olvidados, Beasts of No Nation, Apocalypse Now, and Aguirre, the Wrath of God.

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