HATSU. Fiction. Shortfilm. Peru. Dir. Rita Prieto.
At the end of the 19th century, a Japanese family lives in the mountains of Argentina. 20-year-old Takeo grows up listening to the stories of his grandfather, a renowned samurai.When grandfather dies, misinterpreting his last words, Takeo begins the unlikely search for Saigo Takamori, the leader of the samurai rebels. Along the way he will meet a crippled veteran of the Paraguayan War continuing the journey together as Takeo meets himself as a Japanese overseas.
Nikkei. Documentary. Feature Film
Nikkei. Documentary. Feature Film
The search for identity. Cultures crossing continents. In Nikkei, director Kaori Flores Yonekura tells the story of her grandparents’ intrepid journey from Japan to Peru to Venezuela. Along the way, their personal search for a new home is set against the larger backdrop of the history of Japanese immigration to Latinamerica: from servitude in Peru, to the anti-Japanese media campaigns in World War II, to propaganda and promises of a better life in Venezuela.
Matria. Documentary. Feature Film
Matria. Documentary. Feature Film
Matria is an invitation to rethink Mexico, through the history of Antolín Jiménez, grandfather of the filmmaker, was a controversial character who moved in many spaces of society, fought with Pancho Villa, became a Master Mason, deputy 3 times for Oaxaca and president of the National Association of Charros. In 1942 he formed "La Legión de Guerrilleros Mexicanos", a group of 100,000 charros who trained to repel a possible Nazi invasion of Mexico.
Being Clara. Fiction. Shortfilm
Being Clara. Fiction. Shortfilm
Clara, a young writer who has two days to deliver her book, she has returned to live with her obachan (grandmother) who hopes that the coexistence between them will be closer, however a gap has opened not only generational but also intercultural, Clara
perceives it and at that moment decides to get closer to her grandmother and her ancestral culture.
Hatsu. Fiction. Shortfilm
Hatsu. Fiction. Shortfilm
Peru, 1943. Hatsu, a young motherless woman, has to take over the business of the family and her three little sisters, as her father was deported to concentration camps in the USA, thus facing a whirlwind of hatred and violence, unleashed against Peruvian citizens whose only "crime" was having Japanese blood.