MOTHER LODE

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Jorge leaves his family and his moto-taxi business in the outskirts of Lima to try his luck in the most dangerous Andean gold mine in Peru.The precarious nature of life and labor ground this documentary-infused drama set in a frontier town where the flow of gold requires human sacrifice. Captured with exquisite black-and-white cinematography, the boundaries between reality, magic and folklore merge in this extraordinary fable of neoliberalism. – Ruth Somalo

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