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THE CAPTIVES

By Natalia MAYSUNDO GIL

MAMAYAKU AUDIOVISUAL - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2022

Dimas and Isabel lived in Arica when new border limits were imposed between Peru
and Chile, dividing their descendants. Their great-granddaughter searches for her
identity, crossing the limits of her memory, family chronicles and official discourses that
shape the history of both countries.

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& Awards

Festival de Cine de Lima 2022
Hecho en el Perú
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    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Female director, Biography
    • Countries
    • PERU, CHILE
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Natalia MAYSUNDO GIL
    • Producer(s)
    • Diana CASTRO (MAMAYAKU AUDIOVISUAL)
    • Synopsis

    • The journey back to Tacna, my hometown, provokes a reencounter with the story of Dimas and Isabel, my great-grandparents, who were born and lived between Tacna and Arica in the period following the War of the Pacific.

      A tar cross was drawn on the door of the house to signal that a Peruvian person lived there. One night, a guerilla group raided Dimas and Isabel’s home. Fleeing the violence, they took a shop to the port of Callao in Lima, where they settled for four years as refugees, along with other Peruvians hailing from Tarapacá, Arica, and Tacna. When Tacna was returned to Peru on August 28, 1929, they decided to return in order to be close to their family members who had ended up on the other side of the border.

      Family keepsakes and the discovery of new scenarios in Tacna and Arica take us on a journey into the past in order to attempt to understand the consequences of war, and the identity of two cities with a close relationship despite the border dividing them. Through the encounter of fourteen actors from both Tacna and Arica with the goal of staging the play “Tacna y Arica, el juez” (“Tacna and Arica, the Judge”), we explore how that shared history is experienced today.
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