SONG WITHOUT A NAME (CANCION SIN NOMBRE) New Auteurs

Talent attending: Melina Léon (Director)

Inspired by actual events in 1988 Peru, Georgina is a 20-year-old indigenous woman whose newborn is kidnapped in a child-trafficking scheme where itinerant medical centers recruit impoverished pregnant women on the promise of cost-free childbirth services. Discouraged after repeated attempts to engage the police, Georgina persuades a journalist to investigate, bring the kidnappers to justice and return the children to their parents. For each, personal crises overshadow a heightening economic and political upheaval. An astoundingly assured debut from Melina León, SONG WITHOUT A NAME is photographed by TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG’s (AFI FEST 2018) Inti Briones with meticulously composed black and white cinematography that imparts a richness of texture and a luminescent glow, seeing an exquisite beauty in even the bleakest of realities. –Malin Kan