- We went to Berlin with two objectives: To find an opening film, and to get hold of the winner of the Golden Bear. We succeeded at both, a content director of Kosmorama, Ola Lund Renolen, ascertains. He saw “The Milk of Sorrow” in Berlin, and is very enthusiastic about it.

- It’s a very good film. The final scene is amongst the most poetic and symbolically beautiful I’ve seen in a very, very long time, Renolen adds. He describes “The Milk of Sorrow” as a remarkable story, told in an Indian magic-like fashion; unobtrusive, unpretentious and calm, yet tight and precise, with gorgeous imagery.

The film is a Peruvian/Spanish production, directed by Claudia Llosa (born in 1976). It depicts the young Indian woman Fauta, who has become sick because of her mother’s milk. The unusual sickness only affects the women who were abused or raped during the brutal regime who were in power from 1980 to 2000.