Altiplano

JASMIN TABATABAI

MAGALY SOLIER

OLIVIER GOURMET

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CREDITS Original title: Altiplano Director: Brosens & Woodworth Cast: Jasmin Tabatabai, Magaly Solier, Olivier Gourmet Original screenplay: Brosens & Woodworth Photography: Francisco Gozón Editing: Nico Leunen Sound: Michel Schöpping FORMAT Original version: Spanish, Quechua, English, French, Farsi Running time: 109’ Format: 35mm, 1:1.85, Dolby Digital, Colour Year of production: 2009

PRODUCTION Flemish producer: Peter Brosens Production: Bo Films Executive producer: Heino Deckert Co-production: MaJaDe Fiction (DE), Entre Chien et Loup (BE), Lemming Film (NL) Associate producer: Daniel Rò (Lima) Supported by: Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), CFWB, Wallimage, ING Tax Shelter, National Lottery, MDM, MBB, NFF, EURIMAGES, i2i-MEDIA Programme, ZDF/ARTE, VRT/ Canvas, Imagine Film, Farbfilm, Cineworx, Kodak, CineMart Rotterdam Film Festival, SACD

All stills by Carl De Keyzer

CONTACT SALES Meridiana Films Helen Loveridge 20 Arthur Road UK-London N7 6DR England T/F +44 20 77003088 M +44 7530 172548 helen@meridianafilms.com www.meridianafilms.com

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ALTIPLANO War photographer Grace, devastated by 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. The villagers turn their rage on the foreign doctors, and in the ensuing riot Max is killed. Saturnina takes drastic measures to protest against the endless violations towards her people and their land. Grace sets out on a journey of mourning to the place of Max’s death. Altiplano is a lyrical and probing film about our divided but inextricably linked world.

ABOUT THE DIRECTORS AND PRODUCERS BROSENS & WOODWORTH

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Peter Brosens (1962) started making films in Ecuador with the award-winning documentary The Path of Time. He then directed and produced his internationally acclaimed Mongolia Trilogy consisting of the documentaries City of the Steppes (1993), State of Dogs (1998) and Poets of Mongolia (1999), which received well over 20 awards.

Jessica Woodworth (1971) began working for television in Paris, Hong Kong and Beijing. She shot her first film Urga Song in Mongolia in 1999. She then directod The Virgin Diaries, a documentary shot in Morocco, which was nominated for the FIPRESCI Award at IDFA. Brosens & Woodworth made their feature film debut with Khadak (2006), which won the Lion of the Future/Luigi de Laurentiis Award at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

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