THROUGH ROCKS AND CLOUDS

RAÍZ

By Franco GARCÍA BECERRA

I MEDIATE SERVICING - as CONS

Children's - Completed 2024

Feliciano, an 8-year old alpaca herder, feels euphoric: Peru has a chance to qualify for the World Cup. Meanwhile the pressure of a mining company puts Feliciano´s village at risk and threatens his world and his dreams.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2024
Generation Special Mention Generation Kplus Best Film
Cine Latino Bergen 2024
Fiction
Uruguay IFF 2024
Children and Youth Long Feature Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Children's, Social issues, Environmental
    • Countries
    • PERU, CHILE
    • Languages
    • QUECHUA, SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 83 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Franco GARCÍA BECERRA
    • Writer(s)
    • Annemarie GUNKEL, Alicia QUISPE
    • Producer(s)
    • Diego SARMIENTO, Jorge CONSTANTINO, Annemarie GUNKEL, Franco GARCÍA BECERRA
    • Synopsis
    • Feliciano is an 8-year-old boy, an alpaca herder and he feels euphoric because Peru has a chance to qualify for the World Cup. While he lives this excitement, the film reveals the situation of his community which is at risk of disappearing due to contamination of the pastures and pressure from a mining company, which threaten Feliciano’s world and dreams.