“Yana-Wara”, Oscar Catacora’s posthumous film, hits theaters this April 4

The posthumous film of the Peruvian filmmaker Oscar Catacora will hit commercial cinemas this April 4, as confirmed by Tito Catacora, the director’s brother, on his social networks by sharing the film’s poster.

In this way, Yana-Wara, a film that won the award for Best Peruvian Film at the ULima 2023 Film Week and an honorable mention at the Lima Film Festival, will reach the mass audience when it premieres in theaters in Peru.

Although the locations of the theaters and times where the Catacora film will be screened are not yet known, it is expected to reach the majority of Peruvians.

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Oscar Catacora, author of the film Wiñaypacha and who died in October 2021, he said in Yana-Wara a heartbreaking story about a girl, whose tragic life is remembered by her grandfather (Don Evaristo) through stories full of fantasy, horror and rawness.

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Yana-Wara It has also been nominated in the Best Film category at the 2023 Apreci Awards, the ceremony will take place on February 23 in the Armando Robles Godoy room of the Ministry of Culture. Catacora was a prominent filmmaker who made the first Peruvian film recorded entirely in the Aymara language.

Official poster for Yana-Wara, which opens in national cinemas on April 4

Source: Elcomercio