International Competition

Thirty-year-old friendship of Swedish photographer and journalist Mikael Wiström and Peruvian Daniel Barrientos started one day when Wiström was taking a photograph of a group of poor people. Barrientos, deformed after recovering from poliomyelitis, asked Wiström what was he doing with that expensive camera. That was in 1974. In 1991, Wiström returns to Peru for the first time after that episode, this time as a director. He finds Daniel married with four kids, still barely making ends meet. With a help of computer-animated old photographs, excerpts of the film he made in 1993 (The Other Shore) and the footage from 2003, the director tells a story about friendship between himself as a wealthy Western film-maker and poor Daniel.