Tomas, a young black boy driven from Colombia’s Pacific coast by the war, tries to get by in Bogota, a racist city with 8 million inhabitants.
A fractured, coming-of-age portrait of a teenage barber in the wild ghettos of Bogotá, this astutely observed debut from Juan Andrés Arango is an authentic ode to fraternal love. Premiering at Cannes, and teeming with Indio-inflected hip-hop, La Playa D.C. marked Arango as a fierce talent to watch.
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