Event

EL REGALO DE LA PACHAMAMA

RED ROCK FILM FESTIVAL 09 â EL REGALO DE LA PACHAMAMA
El Regalo de la Pachamama
(The Gift of the Pachamama) â World Premiere
Feature Competition â Narrative Fiction
Bolivia, Japan (2008) 104 min. (1.85:1) In Quechua with English subtitles
DIR Toshifumi Matsushita EXEPRO PRO Toshifumi Matsushita COPRO SCR Toshifumi Matsushita CIN Toshifumi Matsushita, Gustavo Soto EDIT MUS CAST Christian Huaygua
At Boliviaâs Salar de Uyuni (Salt Lake), where many families work with salt, a 13-year-old boy named Kunturi lives a traditional Quecha life with his family. His life begins to change when his grandmother dies, a friend moves away and his father takes him on his first trip with the llama caravan. For three months he travels the Ruta de la Sal, exchanging blocks of salt his father and other villagers have chipped from the lake, for other products of the Andes and the surrounding area. Kunturi learns from these experiences and encounters along the way. When the caravan arrives at the town of Macha where the âTinkuâ Festival takes place, Kunturiâs life is changed even more deeply. There he finds Ulala, the most beautiful girl he could imagine, who shares the same dream with him: to run together across the immense white sea of the Salar de Uyuni.