Haunting Return _ ZonaSur Cinema Club_ Oxford

Haunting Return
This programme brings together two works that explore how the past returns to haunt the present through memory, displacement, and unresolved violence. In Tupananchiskama, Adriana Terry offers a poetic meditation on migration and longing, where absence and return are felt through language, landscape, and ritual. La Llorona reimagines a folkloric myth as political horror, transforming the domestic space into a site of historical reckoning. Together, these films reveal haunting not as superstition, but as a necessary confrontation with personal and collective memory.

📅 18 February
🎬 Haunting Return
Peru / Guatemala —
Tupananchiskama (short film) by: Adriana Terry
Year: 2024
Genre: Experimental / poetic / migration
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Tupananchiskama, a film‑poem reflecting an introspective journey back home in Lima, Peru. Through sunlit cityscapes and fragmented memories, the film explores the dissociative feelings of a place one is no longer a part of.

Followed by La Llorona (feature film) by: Jayro Bustamante
Year: 2019
Genre: Horror / magical realism / political drama
La Llorona is a 2019 Guatemalan horror film by Jayro Bustamante that blends supernatural elements with political critique, using the Latin American legend of La Llorona to confront historical violence and the legacy of genocide in Guatemala.
The story centers on an aging former military leader whose family is haunted by the ghosts of a violent past.

At the end of the screening, a Q&A discussion will take place with the director of Tupananchiskama, Adriana Terry.
https://wegottickets.com/event/690274

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