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About Days of the Whale

Rating:

Not rated Not rated

Year Released:

2019

Format:

Virtual

Genres:

Drama

Metadata:

Directed by Catalina Arroyave Restrepo

Set in the bustling city of Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city, Days of the Whale follows Cristina (Laura Tobón) and Simon (David Escallón), two young graffiti artists who tag spots around where they live. Simon comes from a working-class background and lives with his grandmother. They are part of an art collective which is also the center for a group of young revolutionaries. Cristina is a college student from an upper-middle-class family, living with her father because her journalist mother moved to Spain when threatened by the city’s criminal street gangs. The bond uniting them, along with her friendships with other artists, keeps Cristina from leaving the city as tensions rise around their own activism. In Spanish with English subtitles. Contains mature content.