The Latin American Network Initiative (LANI) and QISA, within Gender and Diversity Month, aim to provide a Latin American perspective to these issues through the screening of one film related to these issues in one of LANI’s CINEDEBATES. Through CINEDEBATES, LANI aims to provide a safe space to discuss ongoing issues in Latin America portrayed in different films or movies from different perspectives.

Taking into consideration the topic of gender and diversity, we will be discussing the film, RETABLO. This film follows Segundo (Junior Bejar Roca), a young boy in Ayacucho in rural Peru whose father Noé (Amiel Cayo) is training him in the family tradition of designing and building religious “retablos” (cultural and artistic artisanal works), but whose secret shatters Segundo's world and everything he believes in. Segundo will go through the his own conflicting process understanding his father’s secret, which is related to the way he lives his sexuality.

The content addressed by this film is particularly rich to analyze through different perspectives such as gender, queer, intercultural, decolonization, among others. The film was originally recorded in quechua (and indigenous language and one of the official ones in Peru) and in Spanish.

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, 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.

It was selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

Agenda:

Registration for Entrance**: 18:00 - 18:15

Presentation of the Movie: 18:15 - 18:20

Movie Screening: 18:20 - 20:15

Round Discussion: 20:15 - 21:00

** COVID certificate is required!! Max Capacity is 50, so only those who register will be permitted entry.