Call Nº: 82/2002

Call Nº: 29/2007

International Title: Altiplano

Coproducing Contry/ies:  Belgium 

Production Company/ies: Bo Films

Website: www.casabo.be

Company/ies Who Received The Support:  Ice House

Bo Films BVBA

Director: Peter Brosens / Jessica Woodworth

Script: Peter Brosens / Jessica Woodworth

Cast: Jasmine Tabatabai / Olivier Gourmet / Magaly Solier

Synopsis: War photographer Grace, devastated after a violent incident in Iraq, renounces her profession. Her Belgian husband, Max, is a cataract surgeon working at an eye clinic in the high Andes of Peru. Nearby, the villagers of Turubamba succumb to illnesses caused by a mercury spill from a local mine. Saturnina, a young woman in Turubamba, loses her fiancé to the contamination. Ignorant of its true source, the villagers turn their rage on the foreign doctors, and in the ensuing riot Max is killed. Grace sets out on a journey of mourning to the place of Max’s death. Saturnina takes drastic measures to protest against the endless violations towards her people and her land. Grace and Saturnina’s destinies merge. Altiplano is a lyrical and probing film about our divided but inextricably linked world.