The Berlinale film festival saw Dominican filmmaker Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias reveal his film ‘Pepe’, which uses the death of one of Pablo Escobar’s hippos in Colombia to draw on the wider themes of identity, migration, and the legacy of colonialism in Latin American countries. On February 20, the midway point of the Berlinale, one of the world’s three major film festivals held in Berlin, Arias presented ‘Pepe’, a film exploring powerful