La Jauría

Recycling and renewing recognizable aesthetic traits and narrative tropes of Latin American Cinema, this fixating thriller comes through as one of the most stimulating allegories produced in the Global South. Set in an experimental tropical-forest prison in Colombia, the film follows Eliú, a country boy, incarcerated in this young offenders institution for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. Every day, the teenagers perform hard manual labor and endure intense group therapy, under the menacing gaze of the camp guard Godoy. One day, El Mono is transferred to the exact center, and with him comes the past that Eliú is trying to escape... In this penal colony, no one can hear him scream.