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DE TODAS LAS COSAS Y DE ALGUNAS OTRAS

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By Sofía VELÁZQUEZ

unknown - Completed 2021

Visions du Réel 2021

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- unknown
- Countries
- PERU
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Duration
- 0 mn
- Director(s)
- Sofía VELÁZQUEZ
- Producer(s)
- Mercado Central ASOCIACIÓN CULTURAL (ASOCIACIÓN CULTURAL MERCADO CENTRAL)
- Synopsis
- A group of filmmakers arrives in Santiago de Chuco, a town in the Peruvian highlands where the poet César Vallejo was born. With a casting as an excuse, the filmmakers take over the theater and the inhabitants of the place arrive, gradually unveiling lives embraced by the aura of the poet, who died in Paris more than eighty years ago. All of them, inhabitants and filmmakers, mix between verses, stories and poetry. Then, the fantasy arises: Blind Santiago is a character that appears in the poetry of César Vallejo, who apparently existed in that same place, many years before and now we are looking for someone from the town to interpret him. Elder is a young musician whose wishes emerge from a magical backpack like a cornucopia. The local children know the poems by heart and recite them in the most unusual places, the streets of the village are named after the published books of the poet and in the local cemetery there is a replica of his real tomb, actually located in Paris. But reality is also filtered: the search for opportunities to study, the need to build an identity, the wish to migrate, the certainty of inhabiting a place that is on the way to oblivion.