WORLD PREMIERE: "PEPE" BY NELSON CARLO DE LOS SANTOS ARIAS AT BERLINALE

20.02.2024 / 15:30 – 17:30
With Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias

The world premiere of the film Pepe by Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias (Fellow 2019) will take place in February as part of the 74. Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), where the film was included in the main competition. Pepe is the fourth feature film by the Dominican documentary and feature film director and is about a hippopotamus that is brought from Africa to Colombia to live in the private zoo of drug baron Pablo Escobar, head of the so-called Medellín cartel. The animal itself appears in the film as a narrator and reports on its life. Artistic director Carlo Chatrian describes Pepe as a “mixture of genres and styles” and the least “classifiable” entry in this year’s Berlinale competition.