2026 Hispanic Heritage Month Film Festival Screening: A Poet

Directed by Simón Mesa Soto. Oscar, a washed-up poet drowning in the clichés of the tortured artist, drifts through Medellín unemployed and estranged from his own ambitions. When a gifted young student asks him to be her mentor, he glimpses a shot at redemption — one he seems determined to sabotage. Winner of the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, this is a razor-sharp, darkly comic reckoning with class, ego, and who gets to call themselves an artist. Spanish with English subtitles. (125 min)