MoreThan Films Acquires Sebastián Múnera's Debut Fiction Feature 'Meteorite,' Headed to Venice Critics' Week
MoreThan Films has acquired worldwide rights to "Meteorite," the first fiction feature from Colombian visual artist and filmmaker Sebastián Múnera, ahead of its world premiere in the Venice International Film Critics' Week section running 2–12 September 2026 (Variety).
The film follows Tefa and Nia, two women bound by a deep bond (Cineuropa), living in a small town near the Magdalena River where they raise Nia's young nephew. Nia persuades Tefa to join her in smuggling cellphones into the regional prison — a job that sends them through an extravagant amusement park built on the grounds of a drug lord's former estate. Deadline describes the result as an intense, female-centred story set in a land still haunted by the drug trade (Deadline).
"Meteorite" is Múnera's move from documentary and visual art into narrative fiction. His earlier work has played festivals including IFFR Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig and FICCI Cartagena, and he has been a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, invited by the Centre Georges Pompidou. He has received the Humberto Solás Cine en Construcción Award and the International Symposium on Auteur Cinema Altiplano Incuba Award. Before landing its Venice premiere, "Meteorite" also picked up prizes at work-in-progress programmes in Málaga and Cartagena — industry showcases where unfinished films are presented to buyers, producers and festival programmers.
The 2026 Venice Critics' Week lineup comprises nine feature films, selected independently from the Venice Film Festival's main competition. The Hollywood Reporter has described this year's slate as political and experimental (The Hollywood Reporter), a fitting home for a film that threads a smuggling run through the surreal ruins of narco wealth.
What makes "Meteorite" stand out is the collision at its centre: a story about two women and a child, set against the leftover architecture of Colombia's drug trade. The amusement park on a cartel estate is not metaphor — it is the actual ground the characters walk. That grounding in real geography, filtered through Múnera's visual-art background, gives the film its texture before a single frame has screened for the public.
Queralt Pons Serra is managing partner at MoreThan Films, the company handling the title. The producers are Sebastian Martinez, Mauricio S. Burckhardt of Haus Kino, Valeria Mejia, Sebastián Múnera of Entre Acto, Abel Villa Romero, Deimer Quintero Vertel of Archipiélago Sonoro, and Rodrigo Ramos of Pos[T] La Casa — a producing roster spanning Colombia and Europe that reflects the film's path through multiple development labs.
For audiences, the Venice Critics' Week premiere means "Meteorite" will screen for industry and press starting 2 September. A wider release will depend on distribution deals struck at or after the festival, the marketplace function that festivals like Venice serve alongside their public screenings.
