'The Trial' () is a 2006 Peruvian drama road movie written and directed by Judith Vélez and starring Jimena Lindo, Gianfranco Brero and Pietro Sibille. The picture premiered in the World Cinema section of the 30th Montreal World Film Festival in August 2006, and the following year received both the Calzedonia Prize and the Special Jury Award at Verona’s Schermi d’Amore festival. Plot summary Miranda, a young Lima architect, discovers that the rare blood type of her long-absent father could save her gravely ill brother and sets out across southern Peru to find him. Travelling with hydraulic engineer Saúl, she crosses drought-stricken Andean landscapes, observing rituals that fuse Catholic processions with pre-Hispanic water ceremonies while confronting memories of political violence that fractured her family.
Cast Denisse Arreguí Mario Bedoya Eliana Borja José Borja Gianfranco Brero Enrique Casella Carlos Gonzales Doris Guillén Willy Gutiérrez Amaranta Kun Jimena Lindo Miguel Angel Medina David Mendoza Miguel Medina Franco Miranda
Awards and nominations Won Verona Love Screens Film Festival 2006: Best Film 2007: Best Film
Nominated Cartagena Film Festival 2007: Best Film
Huelva Latin American Film Festival 2006: Golden Colon.”
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