By the Name of Tania - Clin d'oeil

Synopsis

The Amazon flows lazily through the goldmine-gashed landscape of northern Peru.

Using real eyewitness accounts, directors Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jiménez tell the story of a young woman who winds up in the clutches of forced prostitution when her initially hopeful attempt to escape the constrictions of her village goes wrong. Step by step, she is robbed of her moral and physical integrity.

The film reconstitutes a space of dignity and returns voice and identity to a fate formally made nameless.

With its powerful imagery, the girl’s traumatic odyssey embodies the destruction of life in a capitalist world in connection with horrific natural devastation.

Festivals & Awards

FESTIVALS

Berlinale Generation 14plus

Mooov

Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival Ghent

Documenta Madrid

Fidadoc

Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival

Festival de Cine de Lima (PUCP)

Etats Généraux du documentaire à Lussas

FIFF

Raindance Film Festival

Camden International Film Festival

Urban World Film Festival

Mostra Internacional de Cinema

Semana del Cine de la Universidad de Lima

FilmFest Osnabrück

European Film Festival of Lima

Filmar

Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

Festival International du cinéma d’auteur de Rabat

Denver International Film Festival

Festival de Cine de Trujillo

AWARDS

Award for Best Documentary – Festival de Cine de Trujillo 2020

Award for Best Film – Latin American Studies Association 2020 Film Festival

Award for Best Film – Semana del Cine 2019

Award for Best International Feature – Raindance Film Festival 2019

Special Jury Prize and Award for Best Photography – FIFF Namur 2019

Jury Award – FIDADOC 2019

Jean Loup Passek Award for Best International Feature Length Film – Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival 2019

Don Quijote Award – Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival 2019

Hybrid Documentary Feature Film Award – Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival Ghent 2019

Nominated at Raindance Film Festival 2019 for Best International Feature, Best Performance by Tanit Lidia Coquinche Cenepo, Best Cinematography by Virginie Surdej and Best Direction by Bénédicte Liénard, Mary Jiménez

Credits

directors
Mary Jiménez & Bénédicte Liénard
director of photography
Virginie Surdej
sound
Kwinten Van Laethem
director’s assistant
Lali Madueño
editing
Marie-Hélène Dozo
sound edit
David Vranken
re-recording mixer
Peter Warnier
producers
Hanne Phlypo
coproducers
Julie Freres
Katja Draaijer
Frank Hoeve
Javier Packer Comyn
Camille Laemlé

Partners

Dérives

BALDR Film

Cinétroupe

CBA – Centre de l’Audiovisuel à Bruxelles

Centre du Cinéma de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Fonds Audiovisuel de Flandres (VAF)

Fonds Audiovisuel des Pays-Bas (NFF)

Belgian Tax Shelter

Casa Kafka Pictures (Belfius)

Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union

Belgian Development Cooperation – DGD

Brouillon d’un rêve de la SCAM

Terre des Hommes Suisse

RTBF Télévision Belge – Unité Documentaire

CANVAS

PLUTO Film