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La Jauría (The Pack), a film awarded the Grand Prix at the Semaine de la Critique
With La Jauría, Andrés Ramírez Pulido has created a masterful first feature film, which tells the story of a wounded Colombia through a portrait of teenagers subjected to their own violence. Winner of the Grand Prix at the Semaine de la Critique, the film was supported by the Institut français as part of the Fabrique Cinéma and the Aide aux cinémas du monde.
A meteoric rise
Born on 29 May 1989 in Bogota, Colombia, Andrés Ramírez Pulido studied film at the National University of Colombia, where he obtained a master's degree in creative writing. In 2012, he founded the Valiente Gracia company, which enabled him to produce his short film, El Edén, in 2016. It won awards in Busan, Cairo and Viña del Mar, and was also presented at the Berlinale in the same year. In 2017, his next short film, Damiana, was selected in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, but also in Toronto. Supported by the Aide aux cinémas du monde (CNC-Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée et l’Institut français) and the Fabrique Cinéma, the FDC Proimagenes and the Hubert Bals Fund, his first feature film, La Jauría, won the Grand Jury Prize and the SACD Prize during the Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival 2022.
A suffocating prison world
In this first feature film, Andrés Ramírez Pulido tells the story of a young boy, Elíu, who is incarcerated following a murder in an experimental centre for minors in the Colombian forest. While performing a series of exhausting and repetitive tasks, the teenager is sent to a new place, where, by chance, he finds his childhood friend, an accomplice in the murder committed. This prison environment then becomes the scene of painful reminiscences and a troubling dive into a past that one would like, above all, to forget.
The torments of a wounded Colombia
With La Jauría, Andrés Ramírez Pulido paints a portrait of a desperate Colombian generation, engulfed in a vortex of violence. With a powerful cast of amateur performers, he questions the notions of truth and justice in the face of a world that clamps down and suffocates. In this intense film, set in a climate of permanent tension, the filmmaker depicts an entire battered country that is trying to rebuild itself after years of horror. His mysterious direction, balanced between realism and a dreamlike atmosphere, follows characters in search of redemption, far from the torment and weight of family heritage.
An award-winning début
Winner of the Grand Prix du Jury at the Semaine de la Critique 2022, as well as the SACD Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, La Jauría has been praised for its audacity and the personality of its director. The film has received dual support from the Institut français as part of the Fabrique Cinéma 2018, as well as from the Aide aux Cinémas du Monde 2020. Andrés Ramírez Pulido's work has also been awarded a script for the 2019 Gan Foundation Creation Prize.

La Jauría by Andrés Ramírez Pulido was supported by the Fabrique Cinéma 2018. This programme aims to promote the emergence of young creation from southern countries on the international market.
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La Jauría was also supported by the Institut français as part of the "Aide aux cinémas du monde" fund in 2022. This programme aims to make collaboration between film-makers and professionals from around the world more open, more attractive and simpler, with a view to jointly co-producing works that will contribute to promoting cultural diversity.