By Diego Batley, from Mar del Plata
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Published on 08-11-2023
Peru’s promising feature debuts at 90% in Quechua, for which the world premiere was in the main section of the festival.
Kinra (Peru/2023). Written and directed by: Marco Panatonik. Cast: Raul Shala, Thomas Sevincha, Yuri Chua, Marcosa Huamani, Lisbeth Cabrera. Photography: Alberto Flores and Pierre Pasteur. Edited by: Fabiola Sialer. Music: Fragrances by Chompivelkas and Dina Yalerco. Duration: 157 minutes.
A few days ago I doubted External imposition including global premieres In the international competition by FIAPF and – nobility is required – appearance Kinra, which first appeared in Mar del Plata, invites us to put this statement into perspective, since it is a valuable discovery for programmers.
This first feature film by director and screenwriter Marco Panatonic tackles a fundamental and recurring theme in Andean cinema, such as migration from the countryside to the city. Atocha is a young man originally from a rural area (his mother Ignasia still lives there in the United States) who settles in Cusco (where Panatonik comes) to continue training, get a job, solve bureaucratic issues for documentation and state support.
Their living conditions in the city are very precarious and the feeling of strangeness and farewell is very clear and clear. However, Panatonik avoids any hint of exploitation or consolation, guilty political correctness or patriarchy in order to expose intergenerational contradictions, between tradition and modernity, between the essence of rural man and the dynamics of urban life.
at a comfortable pace, with unfamiliar accuracy of observation and detail, without pressure or haste (the film has a rather excessive duration of more than two and a half hours and the title of the film appears only in the 40th minute), Kinra In some clips, it refers to modern Bolivian films such as The Great Movementby Kiro Russo, and Utamaby Alejandro Luayza , sometimes also reminiscent of Winaypasha, the brilliant first film of the early deceased Oscar Katakura. There is a future in Andean cinema, spoken by Quechua, and far from the centrality of Lima.
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