“A chaotically ambitious mystery...
the spirit of David Lynch lives on.””
PUNKU
A film by J.D. Fernández Molero
(Peru/Spain, 2025, 132 min. In Spanish, Quechua, Matsigenka with English subtitles)
U.S. Premiere. Q&A with director J.D. Fernández Molero.
Deep in the Peruvian Amazon lowlands, Meshia, a Matsigenka Indigenous teenager, discovers Ivan, a boy who vanished two years ago and was presumed dead. Determined to save him, she travels upriver to a town, where he urgently needs eye surgery to halt an infection threatening his sight. As Ivan wrestles with the trauma of his mysterious past, Meshia becomes entranced by urban life and enters a local beauty pageant, chasing fragile dreams of transformation. A quiet bond forms between them, but when a stranger with sinister intentions appears, their connection is put at risk. Shot on 16mm, Super 8, and digital formats, Punku—“gateway” in Quechua—, the latest film by J.D. Fernández Molero, playfully blurs the line between the seen and unseen, opening a portal into overlapping realities.
Wednesday, February 18, 7pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
For tickets and more information visit: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/59363
Presented as part of Lost & Found: Cine(ma)s Latinoamericanos Re-unidos, co-programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.
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