“Willaq Pirqa, the cinema of my people” will be released in Peruvian cinemas on December 8

After being hailed as one of the best films at the Lima Film Festival and winning three major awards, the Bolivian-Peruvian co-production “Willaq Pirqa, the cinema of my town” confirmed its national premiere for next December 8.

The film, which tells the story of how a boy discovers the seventh art in his hometown, reaches the big screen after winning the Audience Award for Best Film, the Ministry of Culture Jury Award for Best Peruvian Film and the PUCP Community for Best Film for “Made in Peru”.

The film also won the National Contest Award for Fiction Feature Film Projects in Original Languages ​​from the Ministry of Culture of Peru and the Co-Production Award from the Ibermedia Program.

The film, spoken in Quechua and directed by César Galindo, stars the boy Víctor Acurio, who plays Sistu, and also features performances by Hermelinda Lujan (Mom Simone), Melissa Alvarez (Lucycha), Alder Yauricasa (Florence), cosme flowers (Rolin), Bernardo Rosadowho plays the projectionist, and Juan Ubaldo Huamanwho embodies the compadre.

Sistu and her small community in the Andes discover the magic of cinema. This meeting causes a stir but also confronts them with their culture and highlights the limitations of the community to understand and read Spanish. As a solution, they choose the little protagonist so that every week he goes to town to see a movie and tells it to everyone in the square. One day he finds the canchón empty, the cinema is gone. Sistu’s enthusiasm for telling the weekly story to the people who are waiting for him makes him create his own cinema, with his own actors, with his own culture and, above all, in his own language. the.