A solid debut by Peruvian director Melina León. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 10, 2021

Visually speaking, it's very beautiful. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 26, 2021

A more accurate way to describe these proceedings would be as an endurance test in the form of the moving image.

| Jun 5, 2021

Song Without A Name is a true original, at once rooted in a raw emotional reality but told with the striking beauty of a dream. Writer-director Melina León is definitely one to watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2021

An aesthetically attractive film... not only due to director of photography Inti Briones' great work, but also because of the frame's definition in each of the scenes. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 3, 2021

A surprisingly affectionate gay love story grounds this terrific and worthy (film).

| Original Score: A- | Feb 3, 2021

There are good intentions and a true visual and narrative flair that makes for a potentially auspicious future. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2021

Building a dark and pessimistic story as bright and hopeful in parallel, without one crushing the other is undoubtedly one of León's greatest achievements. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 27, 2021

What Melina León pursues is not nostalgia but forgetfulness and, inspired by the ethnographic beauty of the indigenous songs and rites of Ayacucho, she places her character in that lost valley that rises and falls every day. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jan 27, 2021

A profound debut feature. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 25, 2021

Powerful and heartbreaking. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 21, 2021

An impressive debut through which Melina León shows that, despite the passage of time, social structures do not change. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 15, 2021

A beautifully shot movie depicting an Indigenous story. Hard to believe this is Leon's directorial debut.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 18, 2020

Its majestic, emotionally charged imagery, and stark vision of unredeemed humanity, are immensely engrossing.

| Nov 17, 2020

With her first feature, filmmaker Melina Leon creates a mesmerising experience, revealing the story through skilful visual touches and heart-stopping emotions.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 6, 2020

Determined to show the dark side of life in Peru in the late 1980s, Melina León's black-and-white film lets bleakness sap its narrative energy at times, but in its most powerful scenes it has several strengths...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2020

This is a very tough watch, all but unbearable, but it has tragic force.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2020

What makes Song Without a Name such a powerful drama is a whole-hearted central performance from Mendoza.

| Oct 27, 2020

A dazzling, emotional debut feature.

| Oct 13, 2020

There is a whirlwind of the unknown in Leon's film that makes injustice into a demoralizingly convoluted puzzle that's impossible to solve, especially for those most subjugated to its cruelty.

| Sep 27, 2020