Overview
- “La Niña,” which held a well-attended avant premiere Monday, begins its nationwide theatrical run on Thursday, May 7.
- The plot follows a foreign volunteer in Iquitos who receives nightly visits from a girl asking for sugar, then vanishes as a police probe edges into the supernatural.
- The cast pairs Spain’s Marc Clotet with Argentines Pepe Monje and María Jesús Rentería, alongside Peruvians Cindy Díaz, Sebastián Monteghirfo, Fernando Bacilio, Teddy Guzmán, and the late Óscar Carrillo in his final film role.
- Shot in Iquitos, the film uses real locations that the director says include the city’s oldest house, underscoring a push to root the story in local myth and atmosphere.
- Producer Dorian Fernández-Moris frames the movie as part of a drive to decentralize Peruvian cinema, while star Cindy Díaz marks her first lead role in a Peruvian feature with an appeal for audiences to support regional genre stories.