The Moonlight and Minari Producers Just Made Olmo

By The Backlot

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A teenage boy in a striped polo shirt laughs brightly while a record player spins on a low table, with an older man in a wheelchair smiling beside him and another teenage boy visible in a doorway, all bathed in the warm wood-paneled light of a 1970s living room.

Fernando Eimbcke directed Duck Season in 2004. A film shot in black and white. Two boys, one apartment, one Sunday afternoon. It won the Ariel Award and traveled the festival circuit.

His new film, Olmo, has the same quiet gravity. The year is 1979. New Mexico. Olmo is fourteen and his father is sick. He wants to go to a party. That is the whole conflict.

The producers are Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B, the same team behind Moonlight and Minari. Brad Pitt executive produced.

Olmo premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and opens in US theaters August 7.

Quick Facts

The Moonlight and Minari Producers Just Made Olmo

DirectorFernando Eimbcke

CastAivan Uttapa, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Andrea Suarez Paz, Rosa Armendariz, Diego Olmedo, Melanie Frometa

GenreComedy, Drama

Release2026-08-07

Runtime84 min

RatedNR

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Fernando Eimbcke, director of Duck Season, is back with Olmo. The Moonlight and Minari producers backed him. In US theaters August 7. #Olmo #Backlot

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The team behind Moonlight and Minari backed Fernando Eimbcke for Olmo. 1979 New Mexico, a sick father, a party. In theaters Aug 7. #Backlot