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ASÍ BAILA MI PERÚ

PERÚ DANCES BUENOS AIRES

By Ezequiel YOFFE

Documentary - Completed 2022

A community of Peruvian migrants seek their destiny in Buenos Aires.
Their meals, dances and dreams traveled along with them.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary, LGBT, Art - Culture
- Countries
- ARGENTINA
- Languages
- SPANISH-ARGENTINE
- Duration
- 61 mn
- Director(s)
- Ezequiel YOFFE
- Writer(s)
- Ezequiel YOFFE
- Cast
- Mia MOLINA, Jainor MOSTACERA, Karim QUISPE
- Producer(s)
- Giorgina MESIANO (Criatura Films), Ezequiel YOFFE (La Granja)
- Synopsis
- It is summer in Buenos Aires. It is a celebration day. Colors, music, children running, families sharing ceviche, grilled chicken with french fries, lamb dry, seafood sucking, and children dressing, making up and preparing to compete for a trip to Trujillo, Peru.
  
  Jainor Mostacera (37) organizes, leads and carries out a new edition of the National Competition of dance Marinera Norteña ¨Así baila mi Perú¨.
  
  Winter arrives and finds us celebrating again, but now it is "MISS TRANS PERU in Buenos Aires", beauty contest organized and conducted by Mía Molina (40) (trans woman), where in addition to the typical costumes of Lima, Cuzco, Junín, Cajamarca, the spotlights focus on the request by the Transgender Employment Law.
  Karim Quispe (48) is Peruvian and his son José Quispe (14) is Argentinean. He is a great Marinera dancer and despite his young age makes wonderful presentations showing his pride for the tradition. While we wait for the beginning of a new contest and listen to the hymns of Argentina and Peru, Karim prepares her table to start selling homemade food.
  A new summer arrives and Mía - while directing the rehearsals of "Señora Perú en Buenos Aires" - tells us how she arrived from Peru and began her journey as a reference for the Peruvian community.
  Thus Baila mi Perú is a choral portrait of the Peruvian community that in Buenos Aires found fertile ground to develop its culture through art. Through dances, contests, and typical dishes we approach the dilemmas and conflicts of migrants who seek the opportunity to develop in a new country without leaving their roots behind.