Through Rocks and Clouds (2024)

Original title

Raíz

Directed by

Franco García Becerra

Genre

drama film

Country

Peru

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

ALL

Rating

8.6 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Quechua shepherd boy dreams of watching Peru play in the 2018 World Cup. His life in the Andes is disrupted by a mining company's pollution.

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What happens

Through Rocks and Clouds (Spanish: Raíz, lit. 'Root') is a 2024 drama film directed by Franco García Becerra and written by Annemarie Gunkel and Alicia Quispe. A co-production between Peru and Chile, the film stars Quechua-speaker Alberth Merma accompanied by Nely Huayta and Richard Taipe. It is about a shepherd boy who dreams of seeing his country in the 2018 FIFA World Cup while his environment is threatened by pollution from a mining company. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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