El Olvido

A film about poverty and poetry in a country plundered by the powerful. But also a film where the powerless resist being consigned to oblivion. El Olvido takes us to the forgotten city of Lima, to a forgotten people, the Peruvians and – like most countries in Latin America – the forgotten land of Peru. Occasionally – during presidential elections, after a powerful earthquake, or when a new mass grave is discovered,and then only if it’s big enough – the world remembers Peru’s existence, but just for a few days. Heddy Honigmann