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ND/NF 2009
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Amreeka
We Live in Public
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Autumn
Barking Water
Birdwatchers
Can Go Through Skin
Cold Souls
The Cove
Every Little Step
The Fly
Give Me Your Hand
Harmony and Me
Home
Louise-Michel
The Maid
Mid-August Lunch
The Milk of Sorrow
Ordinary Boys
Paper Soldier
Parque vía
The Shaft
Stay the Same...
Treeless Mountain
Unmade Beds
Teaming Up
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The Milk of Sorrow / La teta asustada
Series: New Directors/New Films 2009
Director: Claudia Llosa, Country: Spain/Peru, Release: 2008, Runtime: 100

"Despite a lifetime of certainty of the worst, Fausta hasn’t been entirely crushed. In the core of her being smolders an incredible power and beauty," writes Matt Griffin in the filmlinc blog. Read the whole review>>

Fausta, the only daughter of an aged indigenous Peruvian mother, is said to have been nursed on “the milk of sorrow.” This accursed designation is bestowed on the children of victims of the former terrorist regime. Fausta has learned of her mother’s past and her own pre-supposed fate through invented song, which is both an art form and oral history tradition. Upon her mother’s death, she must venture beyond the safety of her uncle’s home and choose whether or not to lend her gift of song to pay for a proper burial.

Magaly Solier is a revelation as the tortured and ultimately triumphant Fausta, bringing her incomprehensible inherited pain and discovery of inner-power to the screen with dignity and grace. Winner of the Golden Bear for best film at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival.




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