Eternity

(Wiñaypacha)
Óscar Catacora | Drama

2017 | 88 minutes | Peru

In the high Peruvian Andes, an elderly couple lives in radical isolation, navigating an intimate, contemplative existence where time and nature merge.

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Synopsis

Eternity is an intimate, contemplative Aymara-language drama that follows an elderly couple living in radical isolation in the high Peruvian Andes, where time stretches across wind, stone, and silence. In a fragile stone hut perched above 5,000 meters, Willka and Phaxsi tend their animals, battle the elements, and wait—endlessly—for the return of the son who has migrated to the city and never writes back.

Told with minimal dialogue, patient long takes, and a monochrome palette of rock, sky, and wool, the film inhabits the rhythms of Andean life rather than explaining them, allowing the landscape to emerge as both shelter and adversary. Nature, memory, and faith intertwine as Willka and Phaxsi confront illness, hunger, and the encroaching modern world with a stubborn tenderness that borders on the sacred

Óscar Catacora’s debut and the first Peruvian feature entirely in Aymara offers a formally rigorous, deeply compassionate portrait of aging, abandonment, and resilience. It invites viewers to share the couple’s wait: not only for their absent son, but for recognition of a way of life that is vanishing in plain sight.

Reviews

“Although at times it borders on anthropological cinema, Catacora avoids falling into the trap of sensationalism and tackles a universal theme: the abandonment of the elderly.” – Gaspar Zimerman, Clarín

“Catacora's debut film was one of the most surprising and revealing releases in recent memory.”- Diego Batlle, Otros Cines

“In the years to come, Eternity will continue to be studied and inspire future generations. And that is the emotion that good cinema provokes when it manages to become art.” – Sandro Mairata, Cinensayo

“A cinematic miracle for several reasons. The protagonists are played by people who had never acted or even seen a movie. What we see is human life in its raw transparency, human beings who speak and live 'without acting' on screen. Images in which reality overflows all illusionism: man before cinema.” – Sebastián Pimentel, Diario El Comercio

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Festivals

Guadalajara International Film Festival - Best Debut Film; Best Cinematography, FEISAL Award; Montréal First Peoples Festival - Teueikan Award; AFI Latin America; Lima Film Festival

DIRECTOR: Óscar Catacora

NATIONALITY: Peru

YEAR: 2017

GENRE: Drama

LANGUAGE: Aymara; Indigenous languages; Other languages

COLOR / B&W: Color

GRADE LEVEL: High School, College, Adult

SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE

AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE

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