Country: Peru, Spain, France, Colombia
Year: 2025
Duration: 106'
Defeated, 18th-century revolutionary Ángel Pumacahua flees to his home village, only to find himself transported to the 21st-century Peruvian Andes. A meteorite crashes nearby, rupturing time and marking the collision of eras. Amid the echoes of this break, he meets Eustaquia, who is searching for her twin sister, missing during a protest against a mining company. Together, they question the meaning of revolution today: “What and who should we fight?”
Biography
film director
Daniel Vidal Toche
(Peru) studied audiovisual communication at the University of Lima and later completed the three-year Creative Documentary Film program at ECAM (Madrid Film School) in 2019. His debut middle-length film Salir de aquí was selected in the official sections of several festivals including Malaga, DocLisboa, and Alcine. La anatomía de los caballos is his debut feature film. He currently lives in Madrid, where he is writing his next film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Salir de aquí (mm, 2019), La anatomía de los caballos (2025).
Declaration
film director
“With La anatomía de los caballos, I aimed to express my feelings about my country, where the desire for change always seems to fail. In Peru, as in Latin America, it feels like we start again and again from the same place, trapped in an unbroken cycle. My film intertwines two times: the revolution led by Túpac Amaru II and today’s struggle of a community against a mine polluting their river, along with a sister’s desperate search for her missing twin. In the Andean region of Puno, the landscape is harsh and relentless; the earth seems to resist, as if the weight of history and suffering lingers in every corner. The dismembered woman serves as a symbol connecting these times: she is the revolutionary in Ángel’s dreams and also Eustaquia’s sister. Her scattered remains are the fragments of a revolution that, though mutilated, refuses to die. She embodies the revolution itself—a cause torn apart and dispersed. Ángel, my lost revolutionary, still believes in radical transformation, while Eustaquia, wounded by past and present, doubts change is possible. Together, they lead us to question whether revolution is inherent within us or merely a construct we are forever chasing.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Daniel Vidal Toche. SCREENPLAY: Daniel Vidal Toche, Ignacio Vuelta. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Angello Faccini. FILM EDITING: Daniel Vidal Toche, Carlos Cañas Carreira. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Juan Pablo Garay. COSTUME DESIGN: Leslie Hijojosa. MUSIC: Inur Ategi. SOUND: Luis Ortega, Sofia Strafacce. CAST: Juan Quispe, Edith Ramos. PRODUCTION: Playa Chica Films, Pioneros Producciones, Sideral, Los Niños Films, Crack Films, Promenades Films.
CONTACT: Loco Film international@loco-films.com
