Retablo is a 2017 Quechua-language drama film directed by Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio."Retablo, el peso de la herencia". La República, August 13, 2017. The film is an international production with the participation of Peru, Germany and Norway."Lima Festival: L.A.-Based Sound Company E Squared Backs Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio’s ‘Retablo’". Variety, August 10, 2016. The cast also includes Magaly Solier as Anatolia, Segundo's mother and Noé's wife. Delgado-Aparicio's full-length directorial debut, the film is written and acted in Ayacucho Quechua. It is a co-production between Peru, Germany and Norway.
Plot The film follows Segundo (Junior Bejar Roca), a young boy in Ayacucho in rural Peru whose father Noé (Amiel Cayo) is training him in the family tradition of designing and building religious retablos, but whose secret shatters Segundo's world and everything he believes in.De Pablos, Emiliano (August 10, 2016). "Lima Festival: L.A.-Based Sound Company E Squared Backs Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio’s ‘Retablo’". Variety.
Release The film premiered at the 2017 Lima Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Peruvian Film."First trailer for 'Retablo'; Heretic Outreach launches EFM sales". Screendaily, February 16, 2018. It had its international premiere at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival,"Berlinale 2018: protagonistas de "Retablo" se reunirán en Berlín este fin de semana". RPP Noticias, February 17, 2018. where it won a Teddy Award as the best LGBTQ-themed debut film of the festival. In 2019 it won the Havana Star Prize for Best Film (Fiction) at the 20th Havana Film Festival New York."Berlin: 'Hard Paint' Wins Teddy Award for Best LGBTQ Feature". The Hollywood Reporter, 23 February 2018.
It was selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
See also List of submissions to the 92nd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film List of Peruvian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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