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Familia A film by Alberto Herskovits and Mikael Wiström By Carolina Amoruso Editor of IMDiversity.com Hispanic-American Village Familia is a refreshingly quotidian narrative that penetrates the very essence of family life. The third in a series of documentaries following one Peruvian family, moved on to Lima from abject mountain poverty, Familia says a number of things, tender and tough, hopeful and irreconcilable,about this much flawed social unit for which we’ve yet to find a more fulfilling alternative. The filmmakers, Alberto Herskovits and Mikael Wiström, track the Barrientos family in a fume,litter and humanity choked barrio of Chorrillos. Nati, the matriarch, has decided to leave for Spain where a job awaits her. She will send money home to Daniel, her life partner; their two sons, Nataniel, considerably younger than his siblings and a whippersnapping force to reckon with, and Dany, old enough to know better...; an unsettled adult daughter, Judith; Azucena, Dany’s wife,...