{"id":146756,"date":"2025-09-16T06:27:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146756\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:27:18","slug":"toronto-title-the-condor-daughter-gets-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146756\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Title ‘The Condor Daughter’ Gets Trailer\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tArguably the biggest buzz title at Ventana Sur and well received by those who caught it on its Sept. 9 world premiere at last week\u2019s Toronto Festival, Bolivian identity drama \u201cThe Condor Daughter\u201d (\u201cLa Hija del Condor\u201d) now has a trailer, shared in exclusivity with\u00a0Variety\u00a0by the film\u2019s sales agent, Spain\u2019s Bendita Film Sales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten, directed and produced by Empatia Cinema\u2019s \u00c1lvaro Olmos Torrico, a key figure on Bolivia\u2019s cinema scene, \u201cThe Condor\u2019s Daughter\u201d was chosen by\u00a0Variety\u00a0among 20 International Titles to Track at TIFF.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tProduced by Empatia Cinema, with Peru\u2019s Ayara Producciones and Uruguay\u2019s LaMayor Cine, \u201cThe Condor Daughter\u201d turns on Clara, 16, part of the Totorani Quechua community and her midwife mother Ana\u2019s assistant, living high in the Andes..\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe trailer takes in many of the key plot beats. Clara begins it sining soft ancestral songs asking Pachamama, the Quechua each mother,\u00a0\u00a0for a child\u2019s safe passage into this world. A radio allows her to tune in to chincha music, a mix of cumbia and Peruan rock which is all the rage in the nearest big city, Cochabamba. Her best friend tells her she\u2019s met a boy from the city.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen, jobless, Clara leaves her high Andes village to become a chincha singer, Ana seeks her out in, convinced that the village is cursed, animals dying and crops drying, because of Clara\u2019s departure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tA classic coming of age tale grounded in a striking, often sweeping reality, this is a portrait of a teen girl who is torn between her passion, music, and her cultural and affective roots, centering on her adoptive mother and a profession which is disappearing as modern hospital services replace traditional midwifery, paying mothers to give birth on their premises, and village empty of inhabitants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe Condor Daughter
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\n\tThe trailer also captures the range of cinematography, from the huge fall to the valley below, to Clara\u2019s dimly lit home and the lights of Cochimbamba, surveyed by Ana asa world alien to her.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn indigenous communities, the earth is a woman \u2013 Pachamama \u2013 the mother who provides for us and takes care of us,\u201d Olmos Torrico has told\u00a0Variety<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cMidwives are the messengers of the Pacha. For the Quechua, motherhood is closely linked to the earth, to time and to the agricultural cycle. It\u2019s the core of Bolivian ancestral traditions that persist over time, despite adversity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFrom the moment we saw \u2018The Condor Daughter,\u2019 we knew it carried something rare, a tenderness and depth that speak both of a singular place and of universal longing. \u00c1lvaro Olmos Torrico has crafted an intimate portrait of tradition, change and identity, and we are honored to help share this powerful story with audiences worldwide,\u201d Luis Renart, head of Bendita Film Sales, told\u00a0Variety.<\/p>\n

\n\tBendita Film Sales has initiated conversations for sales in North America, France and Spain, said head Luis Renart. He wil continue to introduce the film at the San Sebasti\u00e1n Film Festival, where Bendita Film Sales represents three selected films: Jose Alay\u00f3n\u2019s buzzy \u201cDance of the Living,\u201d world premiering in New Directors; Ana Cristina Barrag\u00e1n\u2019s Horizontes Latinos title \u201cThe Ivy\u201d (\u201cHiedra\u201d) which bowed in Venice Horizons, and Avelina Prat\u2019s \u201cThe Portuguese House,\u201d a Malaga premiere which opened in Spain for Filmax on May 9 as the highest grossing of new bows, having earned an appreciable \u20ac700, 355 ($819,415) at Spanish cinemas.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arguably the biggest buzz title at Ventana Sur and well received by those who caught it on its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,99304,134,344,18033],"class_list":["post-146756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bendita-film-sales","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-toronto-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}