A documentary that matters - a remote mountain community comes to terms with a painful memory.
Carlos Cárdenas , Héctor Gálvez, 2008, 2009, Documentary, Peru, 70min, Spanish, Quechua with English subtitles
Santiago de Lucanamarca, a remote farming community in the Peruvian Andes, is shaken by the arrival of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. They have come to open the tombs of the 69 people who died in the massacre of April 3, 1983. Now, twenty years later, there is a chance to close old wounds, but there is mistrust on the streets of the town. “Aren’t we all Peruvians?” someone asks. The history of Lucanamarca shows us how elusive justice can be.
