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Daughter of the Lake

Where:

🇵🇪 Peru

When:

The 2010s

At the height of the Peruvian gold rush, Nélida, an Andean woman able to communicate with water spirits, uses her powers to prevent a mining corporation from destroying the body of water she considers her mother. A gold deposit valued at billions of dollars lies just beneath Nélida’s lakes and leads farmers and Latin America’s biggest gold producer into conflict.

Released in 2015 — 87 minutes

Genre:

Documentary

Language:

Spanish