!Cantina Latina! Presents Paloma de Papel

Dir. Fabrizio Aguilar, 2003

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Wed 19 September 2007 // 19:30 / Cinema

Beautifully shot and emotionally-charged story of a ten year old boy whose childhood is caught between political allegiance and personal freedom. Set in the iced-peaked Andean mountains of Peru, Paper Dove is a deeply moving humanistic film based on a true story.

After discovering that his father has been killed by the guerrilla movement Shining Path, Juan is kidnapped by the group and taken to their hideout where he is initiated into their ideology and guerrilla warfare. After an encounter with the military, he is commanded to execute the captured enemy leader to prove his loyalty to the movement...