In an impoverished neighborhood of 1980s Medellín, a group of disaffected teens steals a TV reporter’s camera to document their lives. Piercing the derelict landscape’s oppressive atmosphere with disarming reflections on dreams and death, their understanding of reality and hope begins to erode as reports of mysterious lights falling from the sky coincide with temporal and spatial distortions. The feature debut from Bad Bunny collaborator STILLZ BARRIO TRISTE is a generational portrait of Colombia’s forgotten youth, both personal and specific in its perspective, yet unclassifiable in its formal audacity. Accentuated by the intense, shape-shifting sonic palette of Arca’s first ever movie score, the film boldly navigates the liminal spaces between despair and transcendence in what is surely one of the year’s most striking debut features.