Simón Mesa Soto

Simón Mesa Soto Medellín 1986 is a Colombian film director best known for his 2025 film Un poeta Un poeta won the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and the Horizontes Latinos Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival in addition to being selected by the Colombian Academy to represent Colombia at the Oscars and the Goya Awards His short film Leidi won the Palme dOr at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival