Madeinusa

Madeinusa
Directed by	Claudia Llosa
Produced by	José Marría Morales Antonio Chavarrias Claudia Llosa
Written by	Claudia Llosa
Starring	Magaly Solier Carlos de la Torre Juan Ubaldo Huamán Yiliana Chong Melvin Quijada
Release date(s)	2005 2006
Country	Peru and Spain
Language	Spanish and some Quechua

Madeinusa is a 2005 film set in the fictional indigenous village of Manayaycuna ("the town no-one can enter" in Quechua) in the Peruvian Andes. The story covers three days in the lives of the villagers and a stranger from Lima. The stranger, Salvador (Carlos de la Torre), is unwelcome because he has arrived at the beginning of the "Holy Time," a syncretic religious festival spanning Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The villagers of Manayaycuna believe that during "Holy Time" God, symbolized by an effigy of Christ, is dead and, therefore, nothing is a sin. The drama centers around the encounter of the eponymous Madeinusa (Magaly Solier), a teenaged girl selected as the festival's Immaculate Virgin and daughter of the village mayor, with Salvador.

Awards

• Winner, Best Latin-American Narrative Feature, Mar del Plata Film Festival
• Winner, Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay, Cine Ceará Festival Nacional de Cinema
• Winner, Fipresci Prize, International Film Festival Rotterdam
• Winner, Best Original Screenplay, Havana International Film Festival

External links

• Film Movement's Madeinusa page
• Festival de Lima's Madeinusa page (Spanish)
• Madeinusa at the Internet Movie Database