FUGUE / FUGA - Bénédicte Liénard & Mary Jiménez

FUGA is produced by Clin dOeil (België), in co-production with SNG Film, Tu Vas Voir and Perpetua Films

Year: 2024

Duration: 87 min.

Logline:
Between 1980 and 2000, deep in the Amazon, the bloodthirsty violence and homophobia of Shining Path collided with devastating effect. Saor carries the weight of Peru’s haunted past as he accompanies the body of “his” Valentina to bury her. The young shaman slowly transcends his own perception of reality through the disturbing revelations of the community that killed her.

Synopsis:
In the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, SAOR, a young androgynous Indian, carries a coffin. He is taking VALENTINA, his lover, back to her native village to bury her. When Valentina left this village years ago, before becoming a transgender singer in a far away city, people here knew her as POL. Valentina’s past and death remain an enigma. Yet bit by bit, through his encounters with the people of the village, Saor begins to perceive what connected them to Pol. Sensitive to the world around him, Saor, like a Shaman, enters their memories. Saor begins to understand that, like all homosexuals persecuted by Shining Path terrorists, Pol lived in terror. In the village cemetery, between rage and bitterness, Saor attends the burial of Valentina’s body. A ceremony that is both a burial and an exhumation.

Writers & Directors
Bénédicte Liénard & Mary Jiménez
Producers
Hanne Phlypo
Pilar Peredo
Edgard Tenembaum
Isabel Madueño Medina
Digna Sinke
Director of photography
Virginie Surdej
Sound Recordist
Charles De Ville
Editors
Marie-Hélène Dozo
Octavio Iturbe
Bénédicte Liénard & Mary Jiménez
Rerecording Mixer
Peter Warnier