One time for my Peruvian people!!
The winner of this years Golden Bear Award for Best Picture at the 59th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin is the Peruvian film, The Milk of Sorrow.
Directed by Claudia Llosa, the film stars Magaly Solier as Fausta, who suffers from a disease she believes is transmitted through the breast milk of women who were raped in the Shining Path’s war of terror in Peru. Her life starts to change direction after her mother dies and she goes to live in Lima.
The Spanish-Peruvian co-production is Llosa’s second feature film.
“This is beautiful … this is such an honor,” Llosa said after receiving the award. “This is for Peru. This is for our country.”
“We need this kind of prize,” she said at a later news conference. “It is important to us that people get to know our films.”
The winner was selected from 18 contenders by a seven-member jury led by the actress Tilda Swinton.
Congrats!!!!
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