Kukuli, a young llama herder, leaves her grandparents in the countryside of Cusco to attend the Feast of Mamacha Carmen in the town of Paucartambo.
Cinematography
Stunning Cusco landscapes shot like living mythology.
Costume
Authentic festival regalia that breathes ancestral memory.
Direction
Three directors somehow create one hypnotic vision.
Director
Luis Figueroa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Paucartambo's Mamacha Carmen festival is real and still celebrated, complete with the bear-dancing Ukuku figures who blur human and spirit realms.
One of Peru's first narrative features by Indigenous filmmakers, Kukuli was buried for decades—its rediscovery reframes who owns 'national cinema.'
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