The Match Factory Drops a Trailer for Simon Mesa Soto’s Cannes Critics’ Week Title ‘Amparo’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Emiliano Granada The Match Factory has released the trailer for feature “Amparo,” which marks the return to the Cannes Festival of Colombia’s Simón Mesa Soto, a Palme d’Or winner in 2014 for his short “Leidi.”Playing Cannes Critics’ Week, Mesa Soto’s jump from short to long feature is produced by Colombia’s Ocultimo in co-production with Momento Film, Flare Film, Medio de Contención ProduccionesSet in the late ‘90s, the film follows a Colombian mother of the same name who battlea a corrupt system in a race against time to free her son from an obligatory military draft that for decades has thrown just-18 boys into a war that they barely understand and that still rages even today.