Carta desde Samito

Name: Carta desde Samito
Director: Ina Mayushin
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-01-01

2015 · Documentary

A daughter’s quest for her late mother’s lost paradise. A journey along the Nanay River to find the community that, fifty years ago, became the best place to live—and where she founded the first school.

Directed by Ina Mayushin

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Emilia, a young widow, is traveling by river to Islandia with her young daughter, Irina, in the 1950s. Because the river is low, they are stranded in Santos, a small town in the Peruvian Amazon. The time they spend there is enough to change the course of their lives. Emilia is the first teacher the town has had. Fifty years later, her legacy remains.

How are biographies charted? How is identity constructed? Can we relive our past, reinvent it, rearrange or recycle it? Can we really know who we are if we ignore where do we come from?

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