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The event, held at the <strong>Esquire Theater<\/strong>, drew a vibrant crowd of students, professors, and community leaders, eager to engage with the visionary behind this film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De los Santos Arias, who made history in 2024 as the first Latin American to win the <strong>Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival<\/strong>, began his Cincinnati visit with a talk at the University of Cincinnati. Later that evening, he joined attendees for the screening of <em>Pepe<\/em>, a surreal and haunting meditation on memory, time, and identity\u2014told from the perspective of a hippopotamus killed in the Americas. <em>Pepe<\/em> defies conventional storytelling. The film\u2019s narrator, a disembodied voice claiming to be the spirit of the hippo, offers a fragmented, poetic reflection on existence and displacement. 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