Filius

By day Cristo works a stall at the market; in his off hours he kills for money. It is a double life he has kept in careful balance until the moment he must dispose of his latest victim, a job he has decided will be his last. As he sets about the grim task, the past comes rushing at him with the force of a truck with no brakes, and the choices that led him here demand to be reckoned with. Directed by Juan Pablo Rios and starring Raul Zuluaga and Deisy Johana Olarte, this Colombian short fuses crime drama with an intimate character study, its Latin title, meaning son, hinting at the ties of family and inheritance beneath the violence. Tense, spare and morally weighty, Filius asks what a man sees when he finally looks back at his own life.