Caminos de Liberación

Name: Caminos de Liberación
Start: 2023-05-05UTC16:15
Location: CINETECA - Sala Borau

Grupo Chaski

Alejandro Legaspi

Stefan Kaspar

María Barea

Fernando Espinosa

Peru

1985

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Synopsis

In this piece, the Chaski Group studies the theories and practices of liberation theology - a strand of Catholicism that emerged in Latin America in the 1960s. The short film shows priests, believers, and lay citizens as well, all uniting into a social movement born from the idea of a popular and progressive identity. An impressive portrait of a country in flames, today more relevant and necessary than ever. (JHE)

Director biography

Grupo Chaski

Made up of Stefan Kaspar, Alejandro Legaspi, Fernando Espinoza, María Barea and Fernando Barreto, the Chaski Group was born in 1982, a time of great optimism in Peru upon the arrival of democracy after twelve years of military dictatorship. The collective's main goal was to spread cinema beyond Lima and to record the situations of the provinces and the city outskirts, which had always gone unseen. This gave rise to such unquestionable masterpieces in Latin American cinema as Gregorio (1984) and Juliana (1988), and fascinating original works like Miss Universe en el Perú (1982) and Caminos de liberación (1985), the recent restorations of which we are showing for the first time in Spain. (JHE)