Alejandro Landes

Alejandro Landes (b. 1980, São Paulo) is a Colombian–Ecuadorian filmmaker and journalist celebrated for his poetic realism and visceral explorations of conflict and identity. His early work, Cocalero (2007, Sundance), examined political charisma through documentary immediacy, while Porfirio (2011, Cannes Directors’ Fortnight) unfolded with restrained empathy using a real-life protagonist . He gained global acclaim with Monos (2019), a hallucinatory tale of child soldiers and moral dislocation, noted for its immersive tension and moral intensity . Landes’s cinema merges atmospheric naturalism, adolescence in extremis, and haunting formal beauty, positioning him as one of Latin America’s most compelling auteurs.