The Quispe Girls

In The Quispe Girls, Sebastián Sepúlveda takes us on a journey around the barren and anhydrous Atacama Plateau in Chile. Isolated from the world, sisters Husta, Lucia, and Luciana are devoted to their herd. At the same time, however, they suffer from the loneliness they experience, forced to repress their emotions and femininity in order to survive. The news of Pinochet’s decision to ban pasturing in the area becomes the turning point of their silent struggle to preserve their way of life. The three sisters fall apart in the face of the spectrum of the threat, while all the choices they have seem equally bleak. The vastness of the landscape and the emotional detachment of the dialogue, intensify the tangible style of a film debut that is inspired by true events.