Friday, 29.10.2010 – Semperdepot, M1 – open to general public

20:00 screening of “Milk Of Sorrow”

MONTHLY FILM PROGRAM no.1 proposed by Claudia Caceres and Marissa Lobo

The Milk of Sorrow, 2009 Original title: La teta asustada Director: Claudia Llosa Length: 97 min Language spoken: Spanish, Quechua. Subtitles: German

Screening, film with German subtitles, after the screening discussion.

Between 1980 and 1992 Peru experienced a period of very hard violence, particularly in the Andean region, because of the uprising of the Maoist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) and the actions of the paramilitary and state armed forces. Claudia Llosa refers in her film to the belief that the trauma experienced by women who were raped by members of security force was passed on to their children through the milk from their breasts. Thus, this period of violence continues to affect not only those who experienced it, but also the next generation.