Takanakuy: Fistfighting in the Andes

Directed by Gustavo Bockos · Starring Junior Bejar, Amiel Cayo, Joel Quispe · 2023

Each Christmas in a Peruvian Andean town, villagers dance, drink and settle the year's grudges in public fistfights.

A raucous look at one of the world's strangest Christmas traditions, where communities settle feuds with fists.

Once a year around Christmas in the Peruvian Andes, the whole town gets together to dance, drink and beat the hell out of each other.

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