Feature Film - INNOCENT VOICES / VOCES INNOCENTES
- Director: Luis Mandoki
- Year: 2004
- Country: Mexico
- Duration: 115min
- Genre: Feature Drama
- Language: Spanish w/ English subtitles
- WINNER, GLASS BEAR, BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005
Based on the true story of screenwriter Oscar Torres’s embattled childhood, Luis Mandoki’s Innocent Voices is the poignant tale of Chava, an eleven-year-old boy who takes on the role of the man of the house after his father abandons the family in the middle of the El Salvadorian civil war.
The government’s armed forces are already recruiting twelve year olds, rousting them out of their classes. If he is lucky Chava has just one year of innocence left, one year before he too, will be conscripted to fight the government’s battle against the peasant rebels of the FMLN.
Armed only with the love of his mother and a small radio that broadcasts a forbidden anthem of love and peace, Chava finds the courage to keep his heart open and his spirit alive.
Friday 23rd February, Chauvel Cinema, 9.00pm
www.vocesinocentes.com
