This is a lovely story that will get you misty. The film follows Fernando Valencia who wants to translate The Lion King into Quechua which is considered the language of the Incas. He is striving to both keep the language alive and to make the native speakers feel part of the large world.
You are going to fall into this film from the first frames. As we watch Valencia working on dubbing a scene from The Lion King you end up charmed. Once we are charmed we will follow him any where and we do as we watch him working to keep Quechua language alive. By the time the end comes and we are watching the dubbed film we are misty.
I love this film. I love that the film shows us a story that we probably never considered before. Yes we all know about dialects and other languages, but what exactly does it mean not to speak one of the major languages? How does that affect your interaction with the world and ourselves?
This is exactly the sort of gem that is the reason I say yes to every film at Tribeca – I get to be the first to spread the word on a wondrous discovery.
If you love great docs and stories you haven’t seen before then see RUNA SIMI.
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