Motherland (2023 Peruvian film)
Motherland, originally titled Kinra, el viaje de Atoqcha, is a 2023 Peruvian drama film written and directed by Marco Panatonic in his feature debut. It stars Raul Challa Casquina. The story follows Atoqcha, a man from Cusco who dreams of becoming a civil engineer but does not want to leave his mother and sister behind. He travels between his mountain home and the city of Cusco, trying to find a place to study and work while staying connected to his family and land. Along the way he makes a friend who welcomes him like family. But he cannot forget his mother or his sister, who are also looking for their own paths, and he feels torn between returning home and starting anew. His heart remains divided, like his country.
The film premiered on November 6, 2023 at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Astor. It was released in Peruvian theaters on November 14, 2024 by V&R Films. The film is in Quechua and Spanish, runs 157 minutes, and was produced in Peru.
Kinra was Peru's submission for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The project began with a script completed in 2014; in 2017 it received 420,000 soles from Peru's Ministry of Culture for Fiction Feature Film Projects in Native Languages. Filming took two years in Chumbivilcas, Cusco.
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