The Milk of Sorrow

Fausta is ill with a disease contracted from her mother’s breast milk known as “the milk of sorrow”. However, this is not a sickness caused by bacteria or infection: it is a condition that only affects those women in Peru who were abused or raped during the years of the terrorist struggle. Although this horrific period is now history, Fausta is nonetheless a living reminder of this time. Her sickness is called fear – and it has robbed her of her soul. Now the sudden death of her mother forces her to face her fears and the secret she’s been hiding inside: she has inserted a potato into her vagina, like a protection shield, so that nobody will dare to touch her. The Milk of Sorrow is about the search for healing; a voyage from fear to freedom.

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Script: Claudia Llosa

Cinematography: Natasha Braier

Editing: Frank Gutierrez

Sound: Edgard Lostanau

Music: Selma Mutal

Actors: Magaly Solier (Fausta), Susi Sanchez (Aida), Efrain Solis (Noe), Marino Ballon (Tio Lucido)

Production: Oberon Cinematografica, Spain T. +34 93 4512 560 mmedir@oberoncinematografica.com www.oberoncinematografica.com & WandaVision (Spain) & Vela Producciones (Peru)

Producers: Jose Maria Morales, Antonio Chavarrias, Claudia Llosa

Art Direction: Susana Torres, Patricia Bueno

Costumes: Ana Villanueva

Format: 35mm Color

Production Country: Spain-Peru

Production Year: 2009

Duration: 94

Distribution in Greece: Rosebud Zinos Panayotidis T. +30 210 6786505, F. +30 210 6755067 zpan@odeon.gr www.odeon.gr

Contact: The Match Factory, Germany T. +49 221 539 709-0, F. +49 221 539 709-10 info@matchfactory.de www.matchfactory.de

Claudia Llosa

She was born in 1976 in Lima, and received a degree in communication studies. At the end of the 90s she moved to Madrid, Spain. From 1998 to 2001 she studied at the Film Academy Escuela TAI. At the end of her studies she started working on the script for Madeinusa. She moved to Barcelona to work in advertising. Madeinusa won the prize for the best unpublished script at the Havana FF 2003. In 2009 she finished her second film, The Milk of Sorrow, which screened in numerous film festivals worldwide. It was the first Peruvian film nominated for and awarded the Golden Bear