BELGIUM / GERMANY / NETHERLAND
2009 / WORLD PREMIERE 
1H50 / IN COLOR / 35mm
IN FRENCH, QUECHUA, PERSIAN AND SPANISH

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

Director: Peter Brosens – Jessica Woodworth
Screenplay: Peter Brosens – Jessica Woodworth
Image: Francisco Gozon
Sound: Michel Schöpping
Editing : Nico Leunen
Production Design: Guillermo Isa – Anne Fournier
Music: H. Górecki – R. Einhorn – V. Komitas – A. Redouane – Ignatz – Jatun Cajambe – Michel Schöpping

Cast:
Magaly Solier
Jasmin Tabatabai
Olivier Gourmet
Behi Djanati Ataï
Edgar Condori
Sonia Loaiza
Edgar Quispe
Norma Martinez
Rodolfo Rodríguez
Hermelinda Luján
Arturo Zárate
Andreas Pietschmann
Antonio Quevedo
Malku-Lin Choquehuillca
Félix Cáceres
Raymundo Chillihuani
Kian Khalili

Biography Peter Brosens et Jessica Woodworth Their first feature Khadak  won 20 international awards, including the 2006 Venice Lion of the Future. The film, nominated for the 2007 Sundance Grand Jury Award, was hailed for being “one of the most powerful film meditations ever”. Between 1993 and 1998 Peter Brosens (born in Belgium in 1962) produced and co-directed his Mongolia Trilogy including the acclaimed State of dogs, winner of the Grand Prix at the Visions du Réel documentary Festival in Nyon. Jessica Woodworth (born in US in 1971) studied classical theatre and literature at Princeton University, then obtained an MA in documentary from Stanford University. Her first film The virgin diaries was nominated for the FIPRESCI Award at the 2002 Amsterdam documentary festival. Filmography 2006   Khadak(feature) 2009   Altiplano (LM)

production
MA.JA.DE FICTION (Germany)
Heino Deckert
Tel. 49 30 84306166
fiction@majade.de

BO FILMS (Belgium)
Peter Brosens - Jessica Woodworth

ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP (Belgium)
Diana Elbaum - Sébastien Delloye

LEMMING FILM (Netherland)
Leontine Petit - Joost de Vries

international sales
MERIDIANA FILMS
Helen Loveridge
Tel. 44 20 7700 3088           
Mob. 44 7530 172 548           
helen@meridianafilms.com

presse
Vanessa Jerrom
Tel. 33 (0)1 42 97 42 47 (Paris)
Tel. 33 (0)4 93 94 32 40 (Cannes)
Mob. 33 0(6) 14 83 88 82
vanessajerrom@wanadoo.fr

Cannes contact
MERIDIANA FILMS
Helen Loveridge           
Mob. 44 7530 172 548           
helen@meridianafilms.com

Awards
Grand Awards – 2009 Bangkok International Film Festival

 

Festivals
Sydney Film Festival - 2009
Helsinki International Film Festival – Rakkautta & Anarkiaa - 2009
Oslo Internasjonale Filmfestival - 2009
Stockholm International Film Festival - 2009
Festival do Rio – 2009
São Paulo International Film Festival - 2009
International Film Festival Bratislava - 2009
Mumbai Film Festival - 2009
Athens International Film Festival - 2009
Nuremberg Film Festival - 2009
Cairo International Film Festival - 2009
Canberra International Film Festival - 2009
Festival du film de Gand - 2009
Istanbul International Film Festival - 2010