Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village
Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village is a 2022 Peruvian-Bolivian Quechua-language comedy-drama film directed by César Galindo and written by Galindo, Augusto Cabada and Gastón Vizcarra. It tells the story of Sistu, a 13-year-old boy who lives in a community in Cusco, he discovers the magic of cinema, but the language barrier prevents the villagers from enjoying the movies.
The film was selected as the Peruvian entry for Best Ibero-American Film at the 38th Goya Awards, but was not nominated.
Synopsis
Sistu and his small community in the Andes discover the magic of cinema. This meeting causes a stir but also confronts them with their culture and highlights the limitations of the community to understand and read Spanish. As a solution, they choose Sistu so that every week he goes to town to see a movie and tells it to everyone in the square. One day he finds the paddock empty, the cinema has left.... Sistu's illusion of telling the weekly story to the people who are waiting for him, makes him create his own cinema, with his own actors, with his own culture and above all, in his own language.Cast
The actors participating in this film are:- Víctor Acurio as Sistu
- Hermelinda Luján as Mom Simona
- Melisa Álvarez as Lucicha
- Alder Yaurisaca as Florencio
- Cosme Flores as Rolín
- Bernando Rosado as Projectionist
- Juan Ubaldo Huaman