Born in Lima in 1976 and a niece of the novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, Claudia Llosa studied communication in Lima and film in Madrid. Her debut Madeinusa (2006) was set in a Peruvian village. The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada, 2009), in which a young woman who has inherited the trauma of her mother's rape during the Shining Path insurgency carries a potato in her body, won the Golden Bear at Berlin and was nominated for an Oscar, the first Peruvian film to be so. She later made Aloft (2014).
Filmography
- Madeinusa (2006)
- The Milk of Sorrow (2009)
- Aloft (2014)