''Retablo'' is a 2017
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio.
["Retablo, el peso de la herencia"]
''La República
''La República'' () is a Peruvian newspaper based in Lima, Peru. It is one of the two main national daily newspapers sold all over the country since it was founded on November 16, 1981.
History
Founding and early history
The paper was fou ...
'', August 13, 2017. The film is an international production with the participation of Peru, Germany and Norway. The cast also includes
Magaly Solier
Magaly Solier Romero (born 11 June 1986) is a Peruvian actress and singer.
Magaly Solier Romero was born on 11 June 1986 in to a Quechua family, the province of Huanta, in the region of Ayacucho in Peru. She speaks the indigenous language of ...
as Anatolia, Segundo's mother and Noé's wife. Delgado-Aparicio's full-length directorial debut, the film is written and acted in
Ayacucho Quechua.
[ It is a co-production between Peru, Germany and Norway.
]
Plot
The film follows Segundo (Junior Bejar Roca), a young boy in Ayacucho
Ayacucho (, , derived from the words ''aya'' ("death" or "soul") and ''k'uchu'' ("corner") in honour of the battle of Ayacucho), founded in 1540 as San Juan de la Frontera de Huamanga and known simply as Huamanga (Quechua: Wamanga) until 1825, i ...
in rural Peru whose father Noé (Amiel Cayo) is training him in the family tradition of designing and building religious retablo
A retablo is a devotional painting, especially a small popular or folk art one using iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art. More generally ''retablo'' is also the Spanish term for a retable or reredos above an altar, whether ...
s, but whose secret shatters Segundo's world and everything he believes in.[
]
Release
The film premiered at the 2017 Lima Film Festival,[ where it won the award for Best Peruvian Film. It had its international premiere at the ]2018 Berlin International Film Festival
The 68th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 15 to 25 February 2018. German filmmaker Tom Tykwer served as Jury President.
American film director Wes Anderson's animated film ''Isle of Dogs'' opened the festival, becoming ...
, where it won a Teddy Award as the best LGBTQ-themed debut film of the festival. In 2019 it won the Havana Star Prize for Best Film (Fiction) at the 20th Havana Film Festival New York
The Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) is a film festival, based in New York City, that screens cinema from across Latin America with a special focus on Cuba and its Cinema of Cuba, film industry. It is a project of The American Friends of th ...
.
It was selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards
The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 2019 and took place on February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:00 ...
, but it was not nominated.
See also
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* List of Peruvian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
References
External links
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2017 films
2017 drama films
2017 LGBTQ-related films
Peruvian drama films
Peruvian LGBTQ-related films
German LGBTQ-related films
German drama films
Norwegian drama films
Norwegian LGBTQ-related films
2010s LGBTQ-related drama films
Quechua-language films
2010s Peruvian films
2010s German films
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