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Lima, Peru, 1988. Georgiana, on the verge of giving birth to her first child, leaves her small Andean village in the hopes of getting free medical care in the city. Upon giving birth in a small clinic, the staff remove her baby and it vanishes.
Based on a true story from 1981, Song Without a Name (Canción sin nombre) is a harrowing account of baby smuggling during one of Peru’s worst political nightmares. The country, embroiled in hyperinflation and terrorism, became a crucible of illegal and lucrative activity, in this case selling babies to wealthy Europeans. When Georgiana’s baby is stolen, and she and her partner discover that the clinic is abandoned, she gets no help from a hostile police force and a government spun out of control. Working with a reporter, Pedro Campos, Georgiana uncovers a plot of nightmarish bureaucracy, racism, and greed.
Director Biography
Melina León is a Peruvian director based in Lima and New York and is an MFA film graduate of Columbia University. Her debut feature, Song Without a Name (Canción sin nombre) (2019) premiered at the Cannes Director’s Fortnight 2019 and was nominated for the Caméra d’Or.
Press
"Earthy with social detail from a despairing period of Peru’s recent history, it’s also shot, scored and styled like the most beautiful of bad dreams." - Variety
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