A Poet

Simon Mesa Soto creates one of film history’s most delightful anti-heroes in an irresistible black comedy satire about a failed poet who discovers a new talent that proves impossible to steer.

For Oscar, poetry is the most important thing in life. Unfortunately, his career—like the rest of his life—has come to a standstill. He lives with his mother, his daughter avoids him, and he often ends the night thrown out of a dive bar after too many drinks and heated arguments. When he discovers a natural talent in his begrudging day job as a teacher, he sees a chance to give her the success that should have been his. Naturally, everything goes completely off the rails. Debut actor Ubeimar Rios brings phenomenal life to a perpetually misunderstood man whom we laugh at, suffer with, and are moved to tears by.

• Camilla Larsson