Sobre las brasas

Mary Jimenez and Bénédicte Liénard

On the banks of the Ucayali river, in the Peruvianrainforest, three generations of the same familystruggle to survive through their hand-made productionof coal.After an accident that burned her feet, the grandmotherleaves the family, with the hope of dyingsomewhere else, far away from the coal. Left alonewith her juvenile son, Nancy keeps on struggling.Will she be able to hold her family together?

Type : Feature film
Genre : Documentary
Running time : 85''
Funding : Majority