Mistura: "In live screenings, appropriately, we give people a warning before they watch it that this film may—and will—make you hungry."

vHopeful Conversations Podcast · May 1, 2026 · 45m

In this vHopeful Conversations episode, I speak with producer Ivan Orlic about Mistura, his first Spanish-language feature and first film set entirely in his home country of Peru. Together they explore how the 1960s‑set story of Norma, a high‑society woman cast out after her husband leaves her, becomes both an intimate melodrama of personal reinvention and a larger reflection on gender, class, race, and Peru’s extraordinary culinary and cultural diversity. Ivan shares how he and writer‑director Ricardo de Montreuil built a richly detailed period world—using archival headlines, partnerships…