ROSA CHUMBE

By Jonatan RELAYZE

QUECHUA FILMS - as SALES / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World

Drama - Completed 2015

Rosa is a mature police officer who is forced to take care of her grandson after her daughter steals her savings. Everything takes a wrong turn one night. Only a miracle can save her.

Festivals
& Awards

Lima Film Festival 2015
Best peruvian film
Montréal World FF 2015
Fipresci Award
El Cairo Film Festival 2015
BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2016
Int'l Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • PERU
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 73 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jonatan RELAYZE
    • Writer(s)
    • Jonatan RELAYZE
    • Producer(s)
    • Eliana ILLESCAS (Yin Zhan Films)
    • Synopsis
    • It is the middle of October, in the city of Lima, Peru. This is “the purple month”. The time to commemorate the Lord of Miracles, the most widely venerated image of Christ in the city, with many processions going on around downtown.

      Rosa Chumbe is a mature police officer with both a gambling and a drinking problem. She lives with her daughter Sheyla, who has a little baby. One day, after a big fight between them, Sheyla steals her mother’s savings and storms out of the house leaving her baby behind.

      Rosa is forced to spend some time with her grandson. Something changes inside her heart of stone. However, everything takes a wrong turn one night. Only a miracle can save her.