Sobre las brasas
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”!
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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