Everything changes in the life of Peruvian girl Madeinusa when Salvador arrives in the isolated religiously zealous village in mountainous Peru she is living in.
Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterised by its religious fervour. From Good Friday at three o’clock in the afternoon (just when Christ dies on the Cross) to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and can’t see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without any remorse. Year after year, Madeinusa, her sister Chale, and her father Don Cayo, the mayor and local big shot, maintain this tradition without questioning it. However, everything changes with the arrival in the village of Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, who will unknowingly change the destiny of the girl.
Magaly Solier /// Carlos de la Torre /// Yiliana Chong /// Cayo Ubaldo Huaman /// Melvin Quijada
DIRECTOR/SCRIPTWRITER / Claudia Llosa /// PRODUCERS / José María Morales, Antonio Chavarrías, Claudia Llosa /// PRODUCTION / Oberon Cinematogràfica, Wanda Visión, Vela Producciones
FORMAT 35 mm / 1:1.85 / Colour Dolby Digital /
LENGTH 100 mins
Official Selection, Sundance International Film Festival 2006 ///
Coral Award, Best Original Script – Havana Film Festival 2003 ///
FIPRESCI Award – Rotterdam IFF 2006 ///
Argentina Film & Cinematography Industry Award – Mar del Plata Film Festival 2006 ///
Territorio Latino: Best Film Award – Festival de Cine Espanol de Malaga 2006 ///
Prix Special du Jury – Recontres D’Amerique Latine Toulouse 2006 ///
Best Photography – Cine Ceará, Brasil ///
Best Script – Cine Ceará, Brasil
