Ovejas y Lobos
2024 · 17m · Peru
Directed by Alex Fischman Cárdenas
Genres: drama, historical, thriller
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tense
During Peru's armed conflict, a Quechua-speaking mother undertakes a desperate search across an unforgiving landscape after her son vanishes.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The most political films stay stubbornly inside one body — this mother's search across Peru's war-scarred landscape does more for historical memory than any documentary at this length.
Quechua-language maternal search through Peru's armed conflict — this is the kind of film I want more of, not less. The Llosa/Martel comparisons aren't lazy here; the framework is the whole point.
Alex Fischman Cárdenas places a Quechua-speaking Indigenous mother at the center of Peru's armed conflict — Claudia Llosa adjacent, with Sylvia Majo carrying the search. The linguistic and political center-of-gravity is the film's quiet radical move.
Festivals
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2024
- National Board of Review 2024, Winner