Coca mama

dir. Marianne Eyde 2004 Peru 75 min.

Coca Mama is a simple love story linked to a complex subject. Coca is a word with multiple connotations and contradictions. In a small and remote village in the high jungle of Peru's Quechua-speaking mountain communities. the government threatens to eradicate the people's coca fields. Following their ancient custom, the coca growers send their harvest up into the high Andes, where people traditionally chew the leaf to give them the necessary strength to survive the hard work and the difficult living conditions. A powerful conflict arises between legitimate coca growers, drug lords and government forces. The film is an allegory for an ongoing struggle, but the more fascinating aspects of the film lie in the villagers' relationship with the coca plant, which includes rituals, methods of clairvoyance, and even social codes of conduct. The juxtaposition between the coca plant's place in local indigenous traditions and in the global economy is thought-provoking.
(Screened at 9th International Latino Film Festival - San Francisco Bay Area)
http://www.latinofilmfestival.org

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Coca
• Mama
• Peru
• Latino
• Film
• Festival

[flojox100pre]

donde puedo ver la pili????????????

[danielitaiyta]

@luisernesto2006 Latima que una ves mas el hombre y su ambicion malogro una planta que es en realidad un simbolo patrio, porque como dices, aun es muy usada en la zona andina y no como DROGA, ya que la coca tiene muchas propiedades medicinales.

[plantsofthegods]

yea i think a basic documentry about what they areactually ding in real life and ,say english would get a few millions of views instead of a dumb love story,are you serious,yall are slaves in the jungle,no one cares about you exept for real life situtions witch are headline news and you choose to do a dumb love story?boo,why not obviouse story on the slave life they live making growing coca?the fim makers must be rich,and unfortunatly treeat there cast the same,as worthless slaves,do documentry

[yolvixito]

creada en mi publo yochegua vrae

[wari303]

la coca es una planta linda en el mundo,es verde como el dolar

[luisernesto2006]

esta es una excelente peli!.La coca conocida en el mundo de una manera negativa, pero para los inkas la coca fué y aún lo es en las regiones andinas del Perú una planta sagrada y medicinal.

[lote40]

Maravillosa