Peru’s Minister of Culture has announced that Powerful Chief / Manco Cápac by Henry Vallejo has been selected as the country’s candidate in the international competition for the 94th Academy Awards. The film had its world premiere at the Lima Film Festival last year, where it won the Best Actor Award.
The second feature film by Vallejo starring Jesús Luque Colque, Gaby Huaywa, and Mario Velásquez, tells the story of Elisban, who arrives in the city of Puno, too late to meet his friend Hermogenes, with whom he was going to work. Homeless and without money, he survives from unstable small jobs, in a city that sharpens his loneliness at every step. The inertia of continuing to walk may lead him to a better fate.
Watch the trailer (with no subtitles):
