Through Rocks And Clouds tells the story of the son of a family of alpaca herders. Feliciano (Alberth Merma is beyond excited at the prospect that Peru could qualify for the football World Cup. But there is trouble brewing closer to home thanks to the dirty tricks of a local mining company. Director Franco García Becerra mixing a fantastical element of a lake spirit Auki Tayta in with his naturalistic drama in this family-friendly film. We caught up with Becerra and Annemarie Gunkel, who co-wrote the script with Alicia Quispe, to talk about blending the real and the imagined while keeping a child's viewpoint.
What made you want to tell this story?
Franco García Becerra: The script was written by Annemarie Gunkel and Alicia Quispe, and it's interesting because this story started with an image Anna...
What made you want to tell this story?
Franco García Becerra: The script was written by Annemarie Gunkel and Alicia Quispe, and it's interesting because this story started with an image Anna...
- 3/20/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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If you want to pick a cute animal to wander about at the heart of your film, alpacas are hard to beat - none more so than an alpaca named Ronaldo who has star billing here and who will even get a haircut matching his footballer namesake in good time. This Peruvian drama from Franco García Becerra is shot in the Quecha language and features both similarly stunning landscapes and cute alpacas to those captured in Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s Bolivian-set Utama.
The film also shares some of its environmental underpinning with Grisi’s film about the challenges faced by those who live in these sorts of rural areas, although Becerra’s film is much more family-friendly. Older children will love eight-year-old Feliciano (Alberth Merma), who has two passions in his life - his alpacas, which he herds with his dog Rambo, and, as you might guess from his favourite alpaca’s name,...
The film also shares some of its environmental underpinning with Grisi’s film about the challenges faced by those who live in these sorts of rural areas, although Becerra’s film is much more family-friendly. Older children will love eight-year-old Feliciano (Alberth Merma), who has two passions in his life - his alpacas, which he herds with his dog Rambo, and, as you might guess from his favourite alpaca’s name,...
- 2/19/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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