“Eternity,” Peru’s entry in this year’s Best Foreign Language Oscar category, has a language has never been heard in world cinema before: the language of the Aymara.
As part of TheWrap’s screening series, director Oscar Catacora discussed bringing the indigenous people of the Andes and their culture and struggles to the world through his camera.
“This story is much like the ones of my grandparents,” said Catacora, who himself is Aymara. “This was a very important subject to me, not just because of my upbringing, but because of the issue facing Aymara communities.”
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Titled ‘Wiñaypacha’ in Aymara, the film follows Willka and Phaxsi, an elderly indigenous couple who have been abandoned by their children and society as a whole. Despite this, the couple waits and hopes for their son’s return,...
As part of TheWrap’s screening series, director Oscar Catacora discussed bringing the indigenous people of the Andes and their culture and struggles to the world through his camera.
“This story is much like the ones of my grandparents,” said Catacora, who himself is Aymara. “This was a very important subject to me, not just because of my upbringing, but because of the issue facing Aymara communities.”
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Titled ‘Wiñaypacha’ in Aymara, the film follows Willka and Phaxsi, an elderly indigenous couple who have been abandoned by their children and society as a whole. Despite this, the couple waits and hopes for their son’s return,...
- 12/5/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
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