Madeinusa

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name = Madeinusa


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director = Claudia Llosa
producer = José Marría Morales
Antonio Chavarrias
Claudia Llosa
writer = Claudia Llosa
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starring = Magaly Solier
Carlos de la Torre
Juan Ubaldo Huamán
Yiliana Chong
Melvin Quijada
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released = flagicon|Peru 2005
flagicon|USA 2006
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country = Perú and Spain
language = Spanish and some Quechua
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"Madeinusa" is a 2005 film set in the fictional indigenous village of Manayaycuna ("the town no-one can enter" in Quechua) in the Peruvian Andes. The story covers three days in the lives of the villagers and a stranger from Lima. The stranger, Salvador (Carlos de la Torre), is unwelcome because he has arrived at the beginning of the "Holy Time," a syncretic religious festival spanning Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The villagers of Manayaycuna believe that during "Holy Time" God, symbolized by an effigy of Christ, is dead and, therefore, nothing is a sin. The drama centers around the encounter of the eponymous Madeinusa (Magaly Solier), a teenaged girl selected as the festival's Immaculate Virgin and daughter of the village mayor, with Salvador.

Awards

*Winner, Best Latin-American Narrative Feature, Mar del Plata Film Festival
*Winner, Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay, Cine Ceará Festival Nacional de Cinema
*Winner, Fipresci Prize, International Film Festival Rotterdam
*Winner, Best Original Screenplay, Havana International Film Festival

External links

* [http://www.filmmovement.com/filmcatalog/index.asp?MerchandiseID=94 Film Movement's "Madeinusa" page]
* [http://www.cinencuentro.com/madeinusa/all-comments/ Festival de Lima's Madeinusa page (spanish)]