By the Name of Tania
85 mins
The Amazon flows lazily through the goldmine-gashed landscape of northern Peru. Using real eyewitness accounts, directors Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jiménez tell the story of a young woman who winds up in the clutches of forced prostitution when her initially hopeful attempt to escape the constrictions of her village goes wrong. Step by step, she is robbed of her moral and physical integrity. The film reconstitutes a space of dignity and returns voice and identity to a fate formally made nameless. With its powerful imagery, the girl’s traumatic odyssey embodies the destruction of life in a capitalist world in connection with horrific natural devastation.
Ismael Vasquez Colchado
Policeman
Fiorella J. Aquila
Chuya Chaki
Frank Hoeve
Co-Producer
Camille Laemlé
Co-Producer
Javier Packer-Comyn
Co-Producer
Lali Madueño
Assistant Director
Peter Warnier
Sound Mixer
David Vranken
Sound Editor
Katja Draaijer
Co-Producer
Bertrand Conard
Assistant Editor
Kwinten Van Laethem
Sound
Hanne Phlypo
Producer