Film Screening:

Storm in the Andes (feature film) & Listen to Me Sing (short film)

Tormenta en los Andes / Storm in the Andes

(Mikael Wiström, 2015, 101 min, Sweden/Peru, in Spanish w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD) 

-- Related event the same afternoon (October 5) at 12 pm: A conversation with Lurgio Gavilán, former Shining Path guerrilla fighter and author of When Rains Become Floods. (Forum for Scholars and Publics, Old Chem 011)

Josefina was born in Sweden as a daughter of Peruvian exiles, her Peruvian family played a key role in the country's history - her aunt and uncle were the founders of the country's communist party Shining Path and behind the armed uprising of 1980. She travels back to Peru and meets Flor, whose brother was imprisoned for belonging to Shining Path. Their meeting will mark them both forever.

"Storm in the Andes is an incredibly intimate and localized insight into a dark epoch of South American history, one marred by military juntas and forced disappearances."--Robbie Wilson, Sound and Colours

Short Film:

Escúchame Cantar / Listen to Me Sing

(Karoly Bautista Pizarro & Elizabeth Landesberg, 2016, 10 min, Peru, in Spanish and Shipibo w/ English subtitles, Color, Digital)

-- Co-director Elizabeth Landesberg in attendance!

A self portrait of an Indigenous Shipibo teen living in Cantagallo. This occupied area of Lima is a place in which many Amazonian communities have been arriving in the past decade and a half after being displaced by extractivist operations, pollution, and related illness to the capital city of Peru.

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Duke-UNC Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).