Antuca

ANTUCA

(1992, 72 min)
Directed by María Barea

Antuca, a young Andean domestic worker, decides to return to her community. A decade has passed since the day she was forcibly transferred to Lima to do domestic work in the house of her godmother's brother. From that day on, she has cherished the illusion of returning. The reunion with her community and her teenage love will brace her, but she will painfully realise that they now belong to two different worlds.

The film was made in collaboration with the collective Warmi Cine y Video, the first Peruvian women’s film collective (founded in 1989), and the non-profit organization IPROFOTH (Instituto de Promoción y Formación de Trabajadoras del Hogar), dedicated to educational work for migrant and Indigenous women domestic workers. Antuca has been restored by students of the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, in collaboration with the project "Preservation of the films of María Barea and Warmi, Colectivo Cine y Video: First Women's Collective in Peruvian Cinema".

The film will be followed by a discussion with Dr Isabel Seguí, Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews and Sara Lucía Guerrero, master in Visual Anthropology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Both are members of the team working on the preservation and restitution of María Barea's films.

MARÍA BAREA

MARÍA BAREA (b. 1943, Chancay, Peru) worked for over 30 years as an actor, director and producer of films. In 1982 she co-founded the film group Chaski with which she has made the films Gregorio and Miss Universo en el Peru. In 1989, she co-founded the women's film group 'WARMI Cine y Video', with which she produces and directs documentaries. Her films include, Mujeres del Planeta (1982), Andahuaylas - suenen las campanas. Andahuaylas - cuidad hermana (1987), Porcon (1989/92), Porque queria estudiar (1990), Barro y Bambu (1991).

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