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Young Peruvian director Claudia Llosa is getting a great start on a promising career. Her film The Milk of Sorrow (which has a more interesting title in Spanish — La Teta Asustada) was honored earlier this month at one of the world’s most important film festivals, the Berlinale in Berlin, with the top honor: the Golden Bear for best film:

In the politically tinged drama, which also has elements of magic realism, a disease is being passed from mother to daughter through breast milk. It turns out, the mothers were all victims of the decades-long battle between the Peruvian government and Shining Path terrorists.

Check out the trailer for La Teta after the jump. Read more…