The scared tit, Golden Bear in Berlin

This co-production by the Peruvian director residing in Barcelona, ​​Claudia Llosa, wins the award for best film and the critics' FIPRESCI at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival. Gigante, by director Adrián Biniez, wins the award for best debut film and the Alfred Bauer.

The co-production of Oberon Cinematographic, Vela Producciones and Wanda Vision has made a splash at the Berlin International Film Festival by winning the prestigious Golden Bear. But La teta scareda, under the direction of the young Peruvian director based in Barcelona, ​​Claudia Llosa, has not only been recognized by the Berlin jury but also by critics who have awarded it another of the festival's great awards: the FIPRESCI. Llosa, completely moved, dedicated her award to Peru, while the film's main actress, Magaly Solier, wowed the audience by singing a piece in Quechua. It should be noted that this indigenous language alternates with Spanish in almost half of the film. The Frightened Tit has been filmed mainly in the poorest neighborhoods of Lima. It is a drama that revives the memory of a woman raped like so many thousands during the two decades of war and terrorism in Peru between 1980 and 2000.

But Berlin has given more than good news for Latin American cinema since Gigante, produced by Control Z, has won the corresponding award for best first film and the Alfred Bauer. Its director, Adrián Biniez, born in Buenos Aires in 1974 and resident in Montevideo, has shared the Grand Jury Prize with the German Alle Anderen, by Maren Ade, and the Bauer, established in memory of the founder of the Festival, has also been ex-aequo, with the Polish veteran Andrzej Wajda, for Tatarak. Gigante takes place in Montevideo and revolves around a hypermarket security guard, in love with an employee of the establishment, whom he follows from his multiple video cameras.

Trailer of The Scared Tit

Trailer of Gigante