Sobre las brasas

Director: 
Bénédicte Liénard, Mary Jiménez
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Duration: 
85Min
Year of production: 
2013
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Subtitles language (s): 
Cinematography: 
Caroline Guimbal
Sound: 
Percy Soto Morales
Editing: 
Mary Jiménez, Bénédicte Liénard
Production: 
Tarantula Joseph Rouschop et Valérie Bournonville
Synopsis: 

On the shores of the Ucayali, in Peruvian Amazonia, three generations of a same family are struggling to survive thanks to charcoal. Everything is against it. After an accident that burned her feets, the grandmother is leaving the family. Nancy has a hard time surviving, along with her teenage son. She tries to sell her products on a dying market, in vain. Dreaming of an easier life, her son breaks away from the work of “Carbonero”!

Bio Director: 


After studying cinema at IAD and doing assistantship (for Raoul Ruiz, for instance), Bénédicte Liénard directed films like Tête aux murs (1997) and Une part du ciel (2002), a fiction full-length feature film which was in competition in Cannes for “Un certain regard” section.

Mary Jimenez is a Belgian director born in Lima, Peru. She directed Du verbe aimer and L’Air de rien.

 

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