

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: A POET + Q&A with filmmaker Simón Mesa Soto
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm – Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 10:00 pm
- **Event Description**: A POET [UN POETA] Advance Screening + Q&amp;A with filmmaker Simón Mesa Soto

2026 Oscar® Selection, Colombia 

Winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Colombian director Simón Mesa Soto’s (AMPARO) delightfully deadpan sophomore feature is an unexpectedly absurdist tragicomedy that smartly explores the challenges of pursuing an artistic life and skewers the sometimes misplaced and contradictory ideals of the creative classes to hilarious effect. Ubeimar Rios delivers a standout performance as the hapless Oscar, a washed-up, once award-winning poet, who now lives with his acerbic aging mother and spends his time getting thrown out of Medellín’s dive bars, making a spectacle of himself at local poetry events and unsuccessfully trying to reconnect with his teen daughter. When he reluctantly takes a job as a substitute teacher to ease increasing financial woes, he meets Yurlady (Rebeca Andrade), a sharp teenage writer from an impoverished neighborhood, whose raw talent draws him into a not entirely altruistic mentorship role for which he is completely unfit. After he introduces the young poet to Medellín’s literary elite, they go wild for the idea of rescuing her from poverty through art, and a series of increasingly cringeworthy events ensues, revealing the ulterior motives of everyone involved. Shot on grainy 16mm with the immediacy of a verité documentary and the bite of an Armando Iannucci satire, A POET nevertheless consistently conveys its unfortunate central character’s humanity, seamlessly oscillating between barbed comedy and genuine moments of insight about the human condition and our shared foibles.

In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED

A POET opens at AFI Silver on February 13
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/silver-spring/a-poet-qanda-with-filmmaker-simón-mesa-soto/200029627811757
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, festivals, workshops, comedy, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 14

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://silver.afi.com/movies/detail/0100005225/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=silver+spring-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Silver Spring
- **state**: MD
- **country**: United States
- **location**: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
- **lat**: 38.99646858229
- **long**: -77.0273440269
- **full address**: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3916, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center (https://allevents.in/org/afi-silver-theatre-and-cultural-center/1196686)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3916, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, festivals, workshops, comedy, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about A POET + Q&A with filmmaker Simón Mesa Soto ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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