Cancer Before Cancer
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This story follows a mother from a remote Peruvian province and her young daughter, newly diagnosed with leukemia, on their arduous journey to Lima. With no money for treatment, she clings to the hope that the INEN hospital can save her child, confronting despair and summoning unbreakable resilience—an unflinching portrait of “Cancer Before Cancer.”

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

Cannes Lions (1 Silver + 2 SL). D&AD (1 Graphite Pencil). One Show (1 Merit). Ciclope Latino (Grand Prix + 3 Gold). Ciclope Berlin (1 Bronze). Shots Awards (3 Silver + 1 SL). LIA (1 Bronze). El Sol (1 Gold + 1 Silver). FIAP (1 GP + 3 Gold). Ojo de Iberoamérica (2 Silver + 2 Bronze + 2 SL). Ideas Award (2 Gold + 3 Silver + 1 Bronze).

A mother and daughter walk a dusty rural street at night past a food cart as a bus approaches.
A bearded old man stands in a doorway gazing at the desert, sunlight cutting across his face.
Two people ride a motorbike carrying a blue water jug along a dirt road above the coast.
A crying woman looks up near a lattice window, her tears catching the daylight.
A mother holds her sleeping daughter close while riding a motorbike beside a man on a rural road.
A woman leans against a wall crying in a dim, blue-lit hospital corridor.
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