Quechua with English subtitles
PG
“In order to plant, at first we looked at the stars,” says the gentle of voice of Feliciano, a young indigenous Peruvian man who has lived all but a few brief months of his life in a small farming village in the mountains above the Sacred Valley. Framed by the seasons, the film chronicles a year Felicaino’s life, from planting to the harvest and through a season of work as a porter on the Inca Trail.
Among mountain communities, the belief that life is better in the city is widely held—and so the traditions of “planting according to the stars,” as their fathers taught them, are slowly disappearing. At the same time, crucial practices of communal reciprocity, like community members plowing one another’s fields, are being lost. Through these and other unsettling details, director Jason Burlage paints a vivid portrait of the complexities facing the future of rural communities throughout Peru.
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Please note: this is a FREE screening. Seats are subject to capacity.
- Festivals
- 2009 Starz Denver Film Festival
2010 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
2010 It’s All True International Documentary Film Festival, Sao Paulo/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Director
- Jason Burlage
- Producer
- Jason Burlage
- Screenwriter
- Jason Burlage
- Cinematographer
- Jason Burlage
- Editor
- Keith Lockwood and Jason Burlage
- Music
- Jason Burlage, Nayo Ulloa
- Cast
- Feliciano Quispe Ramos, Locrecia Ccolquehuanca Tinta, Royer Quispe Ccolquehuanca