The Animal’s Wife

Eighteen-year-old Amparo (Natalia Polo) is caught playing a prank on the nuns at the convent where she lives, and they threaten to call her father. Rather than face his rage, she goes to live with her sister in a shantytown on the outskirts of Medellin. The young woman is unprepared when Libardo (Tito Alexander Gómez) - known to everyone as "The Animal" - becomes obsessed with her, kidnaps her, and forces her into marriage. The community knows that she is being kept against her will, but so afraid are they of The Animal that they turn a blind eye. (Toronto International Film Festival)