Wednesday, April 25th - 5:00pm - St. Anthony Main : Friday, April 27th - 7:00pm - St. Anthony Main : Director: Claudia Llosa   Far away in the Peruvian Andes, there are isolated villages where tribes, full of religious fervor, believe that during Holy Week, God doesn’t exist and anything goes. In one such strange place, from Good Friday at three o’clock in the afternoon (just when Christ dies on the cross) to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like.

During these two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and can’t see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without any remorse. Year after year, Madeinusa (a sweet Indian girl,14, so-named because her parents somehow admired America), her sister Chale, and her father Don Cayo, the mayor and local big shot, maintain this tradition without question.  When a young geologist from Lima arrives, however, her destiny will unknowingly change. Director/writer Claudia Lhosa,30, niece of Mario Vargas Llosa, filters this highly imaginative fable through a gorgeously mounted camera in her exotic story of innocence unprotected.

Cast:  Magaly Solier, Carlos de la Torre, Yiliana Chong, Ubaldo Huaman, Melvin Quijada 

Madeinusa was Peru’s Foreign Language entry for the 2006 Oscars.

In Spanish with English subtitles, Peru/Spain, 100 minutes, 2006, 35mm.

Presented by: Bellanotte.