''Retablo'' is a 2017 Peruvian
drama film
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directed by
Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio.
["Retablo, el peso de la herencia"]
''La República
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'', August 13, 2017. The film is an international production with the participation of Peru, Germany and Norway. The cast also includes
Magaly Solier as Anatolia, Segundo's mother and Noé's wife. Delgado-Aparicio's full-length directorial debut, the film is written and acted in
Ayacucho Quechua
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Plot
The film follows Segundo (Junior Bejar Roca), a young boy in Ayacucho
Ayacucho (, qu, Ayak'uchu) is the capital city of Ayacucho Region and of Huamanga Province, Ayacucho Region, Peru.
During the Inca Empire and Viceroyalty of Peru periods the city was known by the name of Huamanga (Quechua: Wamanga), and it c ...
in rural Peru whose father Noé (Amiel Cayo) is training him in the family tradition of designing and building religious retablo
A retablo is a devotional painting, especially a small popular or folk art one using iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art. More generally ''retablo'' is also the Spanish term for a retable or reredos above an altar, whether ...
s, but whose secret shatters Segundo's world and everything he believes in.[
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Release
The film premiered at the 2017 Festival de Cine de Lima,[ where it won the award for Best Peruvian Film. It had its international premiere at the ]2018 Berlin International Film Festival
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, where it won a Teddy Award as the best LGBTQ-themed debut film of the festival. In 2019 it won the Havana Star Prize for Best Film (Fiction) at the 20th Havana Film Festival New York
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It was selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
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References
External links
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2017 films
2017 drama films
2017 LGBT-related films
Peruvian drama films
Peruvian LGBT-related films
2010s Peruvian films
Quechua-language films
LGBT-related drama films
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