KINRA (Perù, 2023, 157′)

Friday, September 27, at 9 pm, Cinema Teatro Monterosa, Via Brandizzo, 65

Pre-opening Job Film Days 2024 in collaboration with Cinema Teatro Monterosa, Festival de Cine de Lima and Cinetrab.

Job Film Days presents Friday, September 27 at 9 pm, at the Monterosa Cinema Theater, a new partner of the Festival, the film Kinra by Peruvian director, screenwriter and cinematographer Marko Panatonik (Peru, 2023, 157′). An event that will lead us to reflect on the renunciations one is forced to make in order to work, sometimes involving important spheres of life such as one’s family and roots. The collaboration with the Cinema Teatro Monterosa adds an important piece to the geography of Job Film Days, bringing the Festival to one of the historic theaters in northern Turin, a garrison for the cultural life of the area and an example of how cinema can be community. The film was screened at the Festival de Cine de Lima, garnering numerous awards, including best first feature and the ILO-Cinetrab award for best fiction film on the themes of the right to work.

Methods of access: the event can be accessed by purchasing tickets at the Monterosa Cinema Theater box office.

Direction and screenplay: Marco Panatonic
Photography: Alberto Flores, Pierre Pastor
Editing: Fabiola Sialer Cuevas
Music: Fragrancias de Chumbivilcas, Dina Yallerco
Cast: Raúl Challa, Tomasa Sivincha, Yuri Choa, Marcosa Huamani, Lizbeth Cabrera, Aurelio Quispe, Jorge Gonzales, Celso Aro
Production: Films Bastardía

Atoqcha is a young Andean searching for his future in Cusco, the city closest to the mountains where he grew up. He decides to visit his mother, who continues to live alone in the hinterland. They discuss how to run the farm, the woman complains that nobody visits her nor him nor his sister,  realising that her son will not return. They say goodbye. Months later, Atoqcha and his sister visit their mother’s grave, buried in the same house. They take different routes, but Atoqcha would like to stay although there are many things to be solved. The protagonist is suspended between two worlds, the mountains and Cusco, and is looking for a place to live and work, having studied civil engineering. Along his journey, he will find a friend who will welcome him like family. However, he cannot forget his relatives and the land where he grew up. Going back is his path, despite the new beginning, because his heart will always be torn, just like his country.

Marco Panatonic (Chumbivilcas, Perù) is a director, screenwriter and director of photography. He started with short films Cuando ya no estemos aquí and Q?ellucha. He collaborated with César Venero for the movie La final (2014), with Marina Herrera for Heroines (2022) and with Elisa Eliash for Fiebre (2022). With the movie Kinra he directed his debut feature premiered at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

Filmography: Cuando ya no estemos aquí (short, 2016), Q’ellucha (short, 2017, doc), Kinra (2023).