“A dead hummingbird appears in Yuriana’s garden, a girl with communication difficulties who lives in the Peruvian Amazon. That day, her world changes, and she must face all her fears to finally find her voice.”
This is the synopsis of Yuriana’s Garden, a fictional short film shot with minimal resources and immense enthusiasm by Luis Solarat and Natalia Mejía, two passionate lovers of the Amazon rainforest who wanted to return all they have received from the forest and its inhabitants through this beautiful story.
The filming of Yuriana’s Garden took place over six months in Madre de Dios, a region of the Peruvian jungle, with non-professional actors, in a dreamlike setting: a wooden house on the banks of the Tambopata River, deep in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon.
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