Lima.- After a difficult first week due to the political situation, the Peruvian film, winner of three major awards at the Lima Film Festival (including the Audience Award for Best Film), Willaq Pirqa, the cinema of my city remains with strength in theaters in its second week, also filling theaters where it is available. This captivating film, which currently competes with blockbusters such as Avatar: El Camino del Agua and Black Panther 2, tells the story of how a boy discovers the seventh art in his hometown and will no doubt captivate viewers with a proposition that mixes drama. comedy in an extraordinary way.
The film spoken in Quechua stars the child Víctor Acurio, who plays Sistu, as well as performances by Hermelinda Luján (mother Simona), Melisa Álvarez (Lucicha), Alder Yauricasa (Florencio), Cosme Flores (Rolín), Bernardo Rosado, who plays the projectionist and Juan Ubaldo Huamán, who plays the compadre.
Sistu and her small community in the Andes discover the magic of cinema. This encounter causes a stir, but also confronts them with their culture and exposes the limits of the community in understanding and reading Spanish. As a solution they choose Sistu who goes to the city every week to see a film and tells everyone in the square about it. One day he finds the canchón empty, the cinema gone. Sistu’s enthusiasm in telling the weekly story to the people waiting for him makes him create his own cinema, with his actors, with his culture and above all in his language.
Willaq Pirqa, the cinema of my city is currently on the Peruvian billboard and can be seen in the following cinemas: Cinépolis Arequipa, Cineplanet Alcazar, Cineplanet San Miguel, Cinemark Jockey Plaza and UVK San Martín. After the success of the Lima Film Festival, it is undoubtedly one of the most attractive films of the season and also a love letter to cinema that is worth seeing on the big screen.
