By the Name of Tania

Documentary85 minutes2019Belgium, Netherlands, Peru

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.

Director
Bénédicte Liénard
Cast
Tanit Lidia Coquiche Cenepo, Ismael Vasquez Colchado, Yossimar Vietto Omnia, Fiorella J. Aquila