In search of purpose and connection, the despondent siblings in this atmospheric short ramble through sleepy suburbs that are filmed like the background of a video game. Cool in style and melancholy in subject, this film is also miraculously warm, imbued with a young man’s love for his brother.

The tension of incarceration simmers quietly in Andrés Ramírez Pulido’s arresting tale of crime and punishment, shot under the sweltering summer sun. Drawing a visual parallel between the male form and the contours of Colombian tropical forests, La jauría unearths the insidious roots of violence.