Release Date

09 Feb, 2017

Runtime

02:05: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

The panoramic shots are breathtaking: a majestic mountain landscape in winter, flat-roofed tin shacks cowering next to one other, women perched on steep slopes using primitive tools to break through pieces of rock. La Rinconada is situated over 5,000 meters high in the Peruvian Andes, on the edge of a gold mine. This 21st century El Dorado is an inhospitable place, where untold numbers of people live and work in the most precarious of conditions, hoping both for gold and a better life. Salomé Lamas has constructed a cinematic diptych to convey the extremity of this situation and the dimensions of its misery without having to resort to graphic images.

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Actors

Crew

Salomé Lamas

Joaquim Carvalho

Telmo Churro

Vladan Nedeljkov

Cristina Almeida

Maxim Holland

Bruno Moreira Dias

João Lobo

Caíque de Souza

Lali Madueño

Francine Cadet

Luís Urbano

Sofia Bénard

Marion Schreiber