Barrio Triste

Name: Barrio Triste
Duration: 1 h 24 min

1hr 24m

3.4/5 (2.2K)

1hr 24m
3.4/5 (2.2K)

In an impoverished neighborhood of 1980s Medellín, a group of disaffected teens steals a TV reporter's camera to document their lives. More Details »

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Release Date:

Jul 10, 2026

Runtime:

1hr 24m

Synopsis

In an impoverished neighborhood of 1980s Medellín, a group of disaffected teens steals a TV reporter's camera to document their lives.

Moviegoers are saying

Barrio Triste emerges as a deeply polarizing found footage experiment that splits audiences between those who see it as a haunting masterpiece of Latin American cinema and those who condemn it as exploitative 'pornomiseria gourmet.' The film follows street kids in 90s Medellín who steal a news camera to document their lives, creating what some call a mesmerizing blend of Gummo meets Under the Skin, while others dismiss it as voyeuristic poverty tourism by outsiders.

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3.4

RATINGS 49 FANS

3.4

Sep 3, 2025

No one tells their story, they literally had to steal the camera to tell it themselves

259 Likes

adamneti

Sep 1, 2025

Honestly, one of the saddest, bleakest, and most hopeless films I’ve seen in a while. Barrio Triste follows a group of kids who become adults not by choice, but by their lack of a proper system that supports them. As they fade into crime, poverty, and the film’s central…

150 Likes

Ex-Paddington

Jul 18, 2026

Pornomiseria gourmet. "Stillz" de colombiano tendrá como mucho a los papás, pero, ¿Qué hace que una película sea colombiana? Es una pregunta que procuro responderme día tras día y que me desvela noche tras noche. Si la nacionalidad del cineasta fuera la regla definitiva…

90 Likes

Trz_10
May 21, 2026

pornomiseria, the movie si le quitasen 45-50 mins de metraje esto podría ser un corto muy chulo estilo found footage, sadly no lo es. se regocija en el contexto y en sus medios técnicos y expresivos, pero carece de profundidad narrativa. dicho de otra manera: no cuenta…

85 Likes

ValenAvGon

Sep 2, 2025

Curse this film for ruining my naps with sudden superloud sounds

79 Likes

Jack Salvadori

Sep 5, 2025

This is what the ideal found footage movie looks like - little to no context, frequently tedious, abrasive and jarring, moments of primitive beauty. Wicked soundtrack. Okay Stillz, I'm intrigued.

66 Likes

Mark Hanson
Oct 23, 2025

Includes some of the most tactile image-making I’ve seen all year. Arca’s score is just unreal. Hope Stillz gets to make many many more things in the future

61 Likes

tyler passalaqua

Sep 10, 2025

the match cut of the glitter on the kid’s forehead with the dead pixel on the camera is why i go to the movies

54 Likes

kit

Jul 23, 2026

offers a hypermediated retort to the middle class Colombian cinema of something like A Poet, swapping its cultured Medellin for something that feels like it was unearthed in a gutter, a fragile artifact of something akin to (or existing on the periphery of) home movies of…

36 Likes

Justin LaLiberty