HECTOR GALVEZ and CARLOS CARDENAS, from Peru received US$ 5,000 for their project “Lucanamarca”. Our jury was impressed by the courage of the two filmmakers whose story from the Sendero Luminoso rebellion is a rare attempt to break through the silence surrounding this dark chapter of Peru’s history. Hector and Carlos are not looking for heroes and villains; their aim is to show us how deep this conflict cut into Peruvian society and why reconciliation is so difficult

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

High in the Andes, the village of Santiago de Lucanamarca was one of the first to feel the brutality of this undeclared civil war. On 3 April 1983, 69 ordinary villagers – men, women and children – were killed by guerrillas of the Sendero Luminoso movement. Twenty years later, a team from Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has arrived in the village to exhume the bodies. Little by little, survivors begin to remember, and the painful story of the massacre takes shape. The wounds are still open; the people still have to come to terms with what happened.