Song without a Name

Canción sin nombre

After her newborn daughter is taken away from her in a fake health clinic, Georgina – a young indigenous woman from the Andes – is driven to the desperate search of her offspring. Her only ally, a reserved reporter who takes on a painstaking fight for justice, attempting to shed light upon this obscure case. A striking true story of baby trafficking in 1980s Peru; the haunting struggle of two kindred spirits in a country politically hostile to minorities, depicted in an atmospheric black-and-white cinematography. It’s worth mentioning that, in reality, the reporter who exposed the trafficking network is none other than the director’s father.

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Direction: Melina León
Script: Melina León, Michael White
Cinematography: Inti Briones
Editing: Melina León, Manuel Bauer, Antolin Prieto
Music: Pauchi Sasaki
Actors: Pamela Mendoza, Tommy Párraga, Lucio Rojas, Maykol Hernández, Lidia Quipse
Production: La Vida Misma Films
Producers: Inti Briones, Melina León, Michael White
Co-production: MGC, La Mula Producciones, Bord Cadre Films
Co-producers: Rolando Toledo, Rafael Alvarez, Patrick Bencomo, Andreas Roald, Dan Wechsler, Jamal Zeinal-Zade
Format: DCP
Color: B&W
Production Country: Peru, Spain, USA
Production Year: 2019
Duration: 97΄
Distribution in Greece: Danaos, info@danaoscinema.gr
Contact: Luxbox, info@luxboxfilms.com
Awards/Distinctions: CineVision Award Best Film By An Emerging Director – Munich FF 2019

Melina León

Melina León is a Lima and New York-based Peruvian director. She studied film and video at the University of Lima, as well as film directing at Columbia University. Her short film El paraíso de Lili had its premiere at the NY Film Festival and was selected at more than 20 international festivals, winning 11 awards, including the best Latin American short film at the Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival.

Filmography

2007 Girl with a Walkman (short)
2009 El paraíso de Lili (short)
2019 Canción sin nombre | Song without a Name