Pepe

The ghost of a hippo guides us on this hallucinatory odyssey of exile and animal consciousness, from Dominican director Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias.

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Credits

  • Director-screenwriter

    Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias

  • With

    Jhon Narváez, Fareed Matjila, Sor Maria Ríos

  • Dominican Republic-Namibia-Germany-France 2024. 123min

  • Courtesy of

    Montey Culebra

  • Languages

    Spanish, Afrikaans, Mbukushu, German

    With English subtitles

Introduction

Following his visionary feature Cocote, Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias invites us on the strangest of journeys: into the mind of a hippo once owned by Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar, but also into the experience of exile, captivity and alienation. Wildly inventive and playful, with narration in multiple languages, Pepe is its own menagerie of untamed imagination.

Jonathan Romney

Content warning

Contains distressing scenes.

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