Cinema: «Simon de la montaña» by Federico Luis, «learn from the other»

The first film by director Federico Luis, Grand Prix de la Semaine de la critique at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024, reverses our perception of "difference".

From Spain, where he is currently in writing residency for his next feature film, in Toulouse, there is only one step. The young Argentine director Federico Luis was invited to the Rencontres Cinélatino at the end of March to present his feature film Simon de la montaña, which is released this Wednesday, April 23rd on the screens in France. Another look, both funny and serious, on the difference and therefore the norm. Encounter.

A young man claims to have a disability in the Argentine filmmaker's first feature-length perturbation, questioning the meaning that one lends to difference and norm.

On the menu of critical debate, foreign cinema, with two first feature films by independent directors: "Simón de la montaña" by the Argentinian Federico Luis and "The Gazer" by the American Ryan J. Sloan.

Grand Prix de la Semaine de la critique, in Cannes, the Argentinean Federico Luis embraces the joys of life in a soft learning story that raises high friendship and love, tight in the arms of young actors with extraordinary disabilities.

In his first feature film, Federico Luis staged a young man integrating a centre for people with disabilities, without having a certificate of disability. "Simón de la montaña" (Simón de la montaña), in theatre in France on 23 April, was applauded by the Argentinean critic, who welcomed the reflections proposed in a film that was also aesthetically successful.