Colombian Artist Sebastián Múnera's Feature Debut 'Meteorite' Gets Trailer, Venice Critics' Week Premiere
The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively premiered the trailer for Meteorite, the feature directorial debut of Colombian visual artist and filmmaker Sebastián Múnera, ahead of its world premiere in the Venice Critics' Week competition on 8 September (The Hollywood Reporter).
Critics' Week — a sidebar of the Venice Film Festival — runs 2–12 September 2026 (Variety). The sidebar's own site lists Meteorite with a screening on 12 September (Venice Critics' Week).
Múnera co-wrote the script with Martha Márquez. The film follows Tefa and Nia, two women in a small town near the Magdalena River who are raising Nia's young nephew, until Nia talks Tefa into helping smuggle cell phones into a regional prison. Their route takes them through an amusement park built on the grounds of a drug lord's former estate. The synopsis warns of violence lurking beneath every surface, with Tefa drawn toward an inevitable encounter.
The setting is not invented. Múnera based the story on childhood memories of passing through a place known as Nápoles, in central Colombia between Bogotá and Medellín, which he visited on family trips in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when it housed a safari-style zoo. When he revisited the site years later, the former zoo had been converted into a theme park and the government had built a maximum-security prison next door.
The cast is led by Ángela Cano, Luna Gaviria, Esteban Madrigal, Jesús Gutierrez and Jaime Castaño. Arlene Muller handled cinematography and Rodrigo Ramos Estrada edited the film.
The producing team spans four Colombian companies: Sebastian Martinez and Mauricio S. Burckhardt for Haus Kino, Valeria Mejia and Sebastián Múnera for Entre Acto, Abel Villa Romero and Deimer Quintero Vertel for Archipiélago Sonoro, and Rodrigo Ramos for Pos[T] La Casa. International sales are handled by MoreThan Films.
The collision of a theme park, a prison and a smuggling route gives Meteorite a singular geography. It is the kind of backdrop that festival programmers gravitate toward — a story grounded in a specific place that opens outward into something stranger.
