Monos, directed by Alejandro Landes, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, has been selected by La Academia Colombiana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (ACACC) to represent Colombia in the international feature film category for the 2020 Oscars and Goya awards.

The film stars Julianne Nicholson as Doctora, Moisés Arias as Bigfoot, Sofia Buenaventura as Rambo, Julian Giraldo as Wolf, Karen Quintero as Lady, Laura Castrillón as Swede, Deiby Rueda as Smurf, Esneider Castro as Boom Boom, Paul Cubides as Dog, Wilson Salazar as The Messenger, and Jorge Román as The Gold miner.

Alejandro Landes’ awe-inspiring third feature is a breathtaking survivalist saga set on a remote mountain in Latin America. The film tracks a young group of soldiers and rebels – bearing names like Rambo, Smurf, Bigfoot, Wolf and Boom-Boom – who keep watch over an American hostage, Doctora (Julianne Nicholson). With a rapturous score by Mica Levi, director Alejandro Landes examines the chaos and absurdity of war from the unique perspective of adolescence, recalling ‘Lord of the Flies’ and ‘Beau Travail’ in a way that feels wholly original. Landes brings together a diverse young cast of both seasoned professionals and untrained neophytes and thrusts them into an unforgiving, irrational and often surreal environment where anything can happen – even peace.

Monos will open in theaters on September 13.