This film has been nominated by the U.S. Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences in the category Best Foreign Language
Film representing Peru. But the movie was produced by the
Spanish government and two Spanish private companies; and
financed by a German film festival and a Swiss film fund, along
with the small contribution og Peru’s government film agency
Although the film is based on true stories of rape, violence and
negative effects that the civil war of Peru caused to many
Andean women, but unfortunately it presents our Indigenous
communities in offensive, distorted and insulting ways. This is
the result of a racist approach of director Claudia Llosa, a
white woman of Italian and Spanish ancestry, who based the film
of a book written by a U.S. scholar. The Milk of Sorrow does not
include the voices of Indigenous peoples of Peru, especially
women, who represent most of the victims of last century’s civil
war, and who are victims of a vicious racist discrimination and
violence in today’s Peruvian soci