Willaq Pirqa accumulates more than 40 thousand spectators in Peruvian movie theaters

“Willaq Pirqa – The cinema of my people” It has managed to stay for six weeks in a row in Peruvian movie theaters against all odds. The film in Quechua was visited by 7,500 viewers this weekend, becoming number 6 at the national box office.

As revealed, so far, the Peruvian film has a total of 42,000 viewers, despite the fact that in theaters in some cities they were withdrawn from the billboard.

jedy ortega morenoproducer of “Willaq Pirqa – The cinema of my people”, He declared in the Official Gazette El Peruano that word of mouth has worked to achieve this rise in attendance.

In addition, he revealed that they had many doubts about continuing with the release date, since, at that time, December 8, 2022, there was a worrying social situation. But the public increased their interest in the film and that made them decide.

“In the first week we premiered it in Lima, Arequipa and Cusco”, counted ortega moreno. However, the tape was withdrawn from the last two mentioned provinces, but the pressure of the spectators made it return to the theater of the White City.

What is it about “Willaq Pirqa – The cinema of my town”?

The Peruvian film stars the child Victor Acurio (Sistu). They also act on the tape Hermelinda Luján (mother Simona), Melisa Álvarez (Lucicha), Alder Yauricasa (Florencio), Cosme Flores (Rolín), Bernando Rosadowho plays the projectionist and Juan Ubaldo Huaman, who 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 Sistu 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 has left. 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.