Sun and Daughter

“Sun and Daughter's capacity for formal seduction derives from the setting of the story: an island in Lake Titicaca. The choice of these locations entails the risk of the film degenerating into a tourist souvenir like the ones the protagonists of the film sell to visitors; but the director manages to avoid it by incorporating the tourists as part of the story, even allowing herself a subtle commentary on their frivolities and the Creole liveliness that the natives of the island take advantage of them.” – Santiago Espinoza A., Ramona Cultural

“The Island of the Sun, in La Paz, Bolivia, is my favorite place in the world. Maybe because I am in love with the memories I have of its unique light. I am convinced that it is that winter light that makes the inhabitants of the island so different. Also, it is that light that submerges us in an atmosphere of tranquility, in a hermetic and mysterious quietness that creates the illusion that the sun is there watching over us as it travels through a deep cloudless blue sky.

In one of those sensory travels to the island, I had a beautiful encounter with two little girls who became the inspiration for Lucía and Maribel. They both had sweet wise eyes, a contagious happiness, and seemed completely focused on every little thing they did, as if it were the most important thing in their lives. Those girls carried on their little backs a heavy load, a mix of nostalgia and desolation. That is what makes them, from such a young age, women capable of being in charge of their own lives, independent, determined, and empowered. People always focus on who or what they are waiting for. In Sun and Daughter, I rather chose to focus on who is waiting and how that process is embraced in what it takes to make of that longing for your purpose in life.”