‘Barrio Triste’ Trailer: Bad Bunny Collaborator Stillz Makes Feature Debut with This Imaginative Portrait of Colombian Youth

EDGLRD, the film and tech company founded by veteran independent filmmaker and provocateur Harmony Korine, has had mixed success since its founding in 2023, releasing two films from Korine — “Aggro Dr1ft” and “Baby Invasion” — that largely received mixed reviews.

For its third feature, the company is finally expanding to new voices. IndieWire can exclusively reveal the official trailer for “Barrio Triste,” a new project from EDGLRD, which arrives in theaters next month.

The first EDGLRD film not directed by Korine, “Barrio Triste” comes from Colombian-American photographer and videographer Stillz. The artist is best known for working with some of Latin music’s biggest stars, shooting videos for artists such as Bad Bunny and Rosalía. “Barrio Triste” serves as Stillz’s feature debut. Film Movement will distribute the film, which also features a score composed by the Venezulan experimental electronic musician Arca.

Part coming-of-age story and part found footage film, “Barrio Triste” is set in Colombia during the 1980s, focusing on a group of teenagers and their daily lives in the city of Medellín. The logline for the film reads: “In an impoverished neighborhood of 1980s Medellín, a group of disaffected teens steal a TV reporter’s camera to document their lives. Piercing the derelict landscape’s oppressive atmosphere with disarming reflections on dreams and death, their understanding of reality and hope begins to erode as reports of mysterious lights falling from the sky coincide with temporal and spatial distortions.”

“Barrio Triste” first premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival before playing at that year’s Toronto International Film Festival, where it received mixed reviews from critics. In a review, IndieWire critic Ryan Lattanzio wrote that the film “still feels more like a video art installation than a movie that demands your attention in theaters. The kind of project — here, a quasi-found-footage horror movie set in 1980s Medellín as the city is terrorized by crime and possible extraterrestrial beings — that would play in a behind-the-curtain sidebar at a museum, where you’d peek in for a few minutes before moving on to another gallery.”

“Barrio Triste” arrives in theaters on Friday, July 10. Watch the full trailer for the film below.