The Art of Losing

Goya-nominated director Sergio Cabrera delivers among the boldest Latin American thrillers of the past decade, an adaptation of the best-selling novel by Santiago Gamboa. The discovery of an impaled corpse near Bogota sets Victor Silampa (Daniel Jimenez Cacho), a hard drinking, chain-smoking journalist and his assistant Emir (Cesar Mora) on a gruesome and mesmerizing journey into Columbia's seamy underbelly. With the aid of a young prostitute (Martina Garcia), Victor and Emir blow the lid off a real-estate fraud scheme that implicates politicians and emerald hunters, among a rogue's gallery of shifty criminals.