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WOMB (aka Clone 2010)
What? Why? How? Reproductive technologies and the biotech revolution have rarely become sexy cinematic subjects or attractive to contemporary directors and it’s always been a mystery why. Do you consider Jurassic Park a biotech movie? Probably not. Well its rife with cloning, extracting ancient DNA, Polymerase Chain Reaction tech and depicts bio engineers as the…
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Madeinusa (2006)
Madeinusa is a 2005 film set in the fictional indigenous village of Manayaycuna (“the town no-one can enter” in Quechua) in the Peruvian Andes. The story covers three days in the lives of the villagers and a stranger from Lima. The stranger, Salvador (Carlos de la Torre), is unwelcome because he has arrived at the…