The Bad Intentions (Las Malas Intenciones)
With black humour and heart, this offbeat drama set in the 1980s tells the story of Cayetana, a solitary but intelligent Peruvian girl with a vivid imagination who is convinced she will have to die the day her brother is born.
A life-affirming journey into both the reality and dreams of an eight-year-old, the story is told through the mechanism of South American magic realism and set at the emergence of a violent period in Peruvian history.
Only her creativity and the guidance of the national heroes of her textbooks - Olaya, Grau, Bolognesi - may save Cayetana from an alienating family environment and a country that is about to collapse.
