20 years after the end of the violent 1980s Peruvian Civil War a young woman tries to come to terms with the gang rape of her mother. Repelled by men and traumatised through the improvised folk ballads her mother has sung her, it is not till after her mother's death that she ventures beyond her mountain top village to take a job in Lima.
Both poetically and with magical realism 'The Milk of Sorrow' artfully deals with the sociological and psychological consequences of war and the slow find out more...

On the eve of her wedding the beautiful opera singer Malvina is mysteriously killed and abducted by the malevolent Dr Droz. Felisberto, an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to Droz's secluded villa so that he can service the doctor's strange musical automatons and little by little he learns of Droz's plan to stage a "diabolical opera". The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes is the breathtakingly beautiful second film from the brothers Quay, a strikingly original fairytale. find out more...