Americano

Canada & Peru / 2007 / Carlos Ferrand / 99 mins

In AMERICANO Peruvian-Québécois filmmaker Carlos
Ferrand returns to his birth country and journeys through the back alleys of the Americas. Travelling from Patagonia to Nunavut, he revisits some of the men and women he befriended during his wanderings through the Americas: family members,filmmakers, professors, a doctor and the cook of his childhood home. All have lived meaningful lives and all have stories to tell that bear witness to the political upheavals of recent years. Ferrand gives them a moment in the spotlight and each in his or her own way encourages us to question our identity.