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Feb 19, 2024 · Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias talks fable ‘Pepe’ – and Berlinale main competition entry – inspired by Pablo Escobar’s infamous zoo and post-colonial discourse.
- Marta Balaga
Aug 28, 2017 · Interview: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias. By Nicolas Rapold on August 28, 2017. At this year’s Locarno International Film Festival, the winner for best film in the Signs of Life section was Cocote, a convulsive drama of vengeance and grief by Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias.
Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias was born in 1985 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is a director and writer, known for Cocote (2017), Pepe (2024) and Santa Teresa Y Otras Historias (2015).
- January 1, 1
- Director, Writer, Producer
- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
Aug 9, 2017 · At the core of Cocote, Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias’ debut feature, is a story of a man returning home for the funeral of his father. This experience of coming back – and the conflicts, self-reflection, and revelations that come with it – isn’t an unfamiliar one.
- Jeremy Elphick
Feb 24, 2024 · Director Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias, from the Dominican Republic, presented Pepe [+. ], his newest work, in the competition of this year's Berlinale. The film tells the story of the life journey of a hippo who travels a long distance but whose tragic end is the result of human decisions.
- Teresa Vena
Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias employs fragmentary forms to allude to a conceivable post-colonial, post-national identity that could live up to his Dominican origins and his responsibility as its (world) citizen.
Feb 25, 2024 · One of the more experimental films in this year’s Berlin Film Festival competition, Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias’ Pepe sees a descendant of one of Pablo Escobar’s “cocaine hippos” ruminate in lugubrious tones about his own existence (and the end of it) while narrating a shaggy dog tale of the run-up to his death.
