The Inheritance of Flora
(La herencia de Flora)
Augusto Tamayo / Peru / 2024 / 133 min
Chicago Latino Film Festival
Ibero-Latin American Film Festival in Trieste
Best SoundtrackHuánuco Film Festival
Iberofest
Peruvian Film Festival in Paris
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A fascinating figure, Franco-Peruvian Flora Tristán’s life and writings remain a testament to her bold vision of a fairer, more inclusive society, and her works continue to inspire feminist and socialist thought worldwide. In the period film The Inheritance of Flora, director Augusto Tamayo San Román explores her trip to Peru.
France, 1833. Flora Tristán, a 30-year-old woman facing extreme poverty alongside her daughter, Aline, sets sail for Arequipa, Peru, determined to claim her rightful paternal inheritance. This journey to Peru, though unsuccessful in securing her claim, profoundly shaped Flora’s worldview. Upon her return to France, she reinvented herself as a fearless writer and social activist, channeling her struggles into a revolutionary vision for workers’ rights and gender equality, becoming a pioneering voice in the fight for social justice.
Though she died young at 41, Tristán’s ideas inspired later socialist and feminist movements.
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About the Director
Tamayo studied Architecture at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, he has a degree in Literature from the Universidad Católica del Perú, a postgraduate degree in cinematography from the Escuela Nacional de Londres, and a master’s degree in creative writing from the Universidad de San Marcos. He is a professor of film, screenwriting, audiovisual production and narrative, art direction, film analysis, architecture, and advertising at the Universidad de Lima, the Universidad Católica, and the master’s degree in advertising at the Universidad San Martín de Porres.
He has been President of the Peruvian Filmmakers Association APCP and the Peruvian Film Producers Association and has contributed to the development of film legislation in Peru since the 1980s.
Press
“The Inheritance of Flora: Symbol of a pioneer.” – Inés García-Belaunde Bedoya
“In The Inheritance of Flora, director Augusto Tamayo San Román explores, through a fictional interpretation, the years when feminist pioneer Flora Tristán came to our homeland.” – José Romero, El Peruano