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MADEINUSA
PERU/SPAIN, 2006, 103 MIN
DIRECTED BY CLAUDIA LLOSA
In Spanish with English subtitles

Madeinusa (pronounced "mah-day-ah-noosa") is a sweet-faced 14-year-old-girl who lives in a dirt-floor house and dreams of the world beyond her mountain village. According to the custom of her town, sin does not exist from Good Friday at 3:00 in the afternoon (the hour Christ died on the cross) through Easter Sunday. Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, arrives by accident on the eve of this bizarre celebration. The community greets him with curiosity and indignation, then imprisons him out of fear that he will interfere with the festivities. But Madeinusa, ever curious about the big city, is drawn to him, and her fate begins to turn in unexpected ways. Peru's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Madeinusa is a classically made fable about the clash between old and new in a strange Andean village. This remarkable debut film vibrates with the vivid textures of rural Peruvian life.