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To speak of poetry is to speak of childhood. A childhood forever expanded. She and he drift through their conversation as they do when they write, without knowing what will happen. The images participate in the conversation, as ingenious and eloquent as the two friends.
It parodies the name of the famous series Miami Vice, this time to register Peruvians living in the U.S.
Short film by Armando Robles Godoy.
A young painter, confined to his home in an Andean village, tries to avoid contracting a pandemic. In his daily routine, he listens to radio reports about the corruption among local authorities regarding their handling of the pandemic. These reports distress him, but he continues working to support himself. In his confinement, he decides to paint, convinced that there are still ways to survive through his art. With each brushstroke, he creates a colorful and sublime Andean image intended to convey a message. Ignoring the alarming news and the national anthem, he perseveres, and his inspiration takes shape: an oil painting with a message of hope.
Yesica and Nataly are university students who failed a course. The only way to pass is to find evidence of the Headless Priest. With the help of their friends, they go in search of something that will have no escape, eventually finding the tomb of the Headless Priest, awakening the story that at some point became a legend.
The story told in Souls in Torment begins with a well-known urban legend (a characteristic that one of the characters in the film emphasizes). Mélinton (Edgar Palomino), a young truck driver, picks up a woman on the highway who appears in the middle of the night and asks him to take her to a nearby town. He takes her and agrees to meet her the next day, later discovering that the woman in question had died a year earlier, which triggers a series of events marked by the horror of the supernatural experience.
The director returns to his hometown in search of ideas for his second feature film. He films his father, a friend, and his cousin, hoping to find a plot or a story. Thus, three walks through the countryside, abandoned places, and pre-Incan sites become three short films that capture this search.
Series of educational short films on cinematographic language made up of: - "The movement" - "The light" - "The noises" - "Music" - "Continuity"
Narrates the trip made by the Henry 9, one of the ships owned by the company of the same name for transportation of passengers and cargo on the route from Pucallpa to Iquitos. Both cities are located in the Peruvian Amazon. The documentary shows the Peruvian rainforests from an angle that is not well known, from that of the everyday life of a riverside dweller, which enables discovering and learning of the natural and cultural value of those who struggle every day against isolation and oblivion.
Short film about Martín Adán (pseudonym of Rafael de la Fuente Benavides, Lima, 1908) one of the great contemporary poets in the Spanish language and the settings of his poetry
Documentary. Directed by Sebastián Rives. Produced by Artistas Unidos Cinematográficos.
A constant element linked to the bull is water. This animal is said to emerge from the depths of an enchanted lagoon. It is a dangerous, almost demonic animal. All these attributes are similar to those of the Amaru in pre-Hispanic times. This explains why both images merged. The counterpart of the Amaru is the celestial Condor. The latter is said to be Machu Inca, or the old Inca. In the Andean dualistic scheme, the Condor represents the upper world, and the superimposition of the condor and the bull illustrates the balance of two complementary opposites that Andean people constantly reiterate to express their sense of integration or unity of the social body.
Ernesto Guevara La Serna, known worldwide as “El Che”. The documentary rescues and recognizes the importance that Peru had in his training as a doctor and as a politician. Discovering it for many will mean recognizing ourselves as a country rich in realities and difficulties, as well as in dreams and utopias that nourish and have nourished the history of our continent.
Gabriel (Giovanni Ciccia) arrives to New York with the hope of devoting himself to his great passion: cinema. After many attempts, Gabriel feels that he has managed to write a script of his career, a story that will give life to an original pornographic film. With an excellent script in his hands, but without any money, he looks for alternatives to produce his film.
The life and work of teacher Elena Izcue.
This portrait of the late 1920s and the first half of the 1930s in Peru offers the perspective of historically silenced sectors. With testimonies from former union leaders, archival photographs, film material, workers’ songs and filming of key places, a transcendental era is reconstructed, where José Carlos Mariátegui and Haya de la Torre played a decisive role in the popular movement.
Q-POP follows 23-year-old Quechua artist and viral sensation Lenin Tamayo, creator of “Q-Pop,” a genre that fuses K-Pop with Quechua, an Indigenous tongue that has endured for centuries but faces an uncertain future among younger generations. As his music gains national attention in Peru and begins attracting fans around the world, Lenin journeys from a working-class neighborhood outside Lima to the streets of Seoul, chasing a dream that once seemed impossible. Along the way, he takes on a mission larger than his own success: using pop music to help preserve and revitalize the language of his ancestors.
It's story of Abril, a mysterious woman with a particular life-style that she stands in the way of Bruno, a Chilean young man who lives in Peru and he's passing through an existential crisis. Abril's philosophy impacts to Bruno. One day, he decides to leave everything, including his job and his girlfriend. Suddenly, Bruno tries to follow Abril's life-style, no suspecting the real reasons why she turns her back to the world.
Lidia goes with her mother, Gina, to the beach house where they used to vacation during her childhood. What should have been an opportunity to relax by the sea, begins to reveal unresolved issues in their relationship.
An unexpected encounter, a white lie, an unexpected marriage, will result in a fun love story between a Peruvian man and a young Venezuelan woman.
Short film.
"No Archive, No History" explores the troubling lack of a national film archive in Peru and its consequences for the preservation of its audiovisual culture. Through interviews with directors, archivists, and cultural activists, the documentary reveals how the absence of a space dedicated to conservation has jeopardized the preservation of films and invaluable historical material. The documentary shows the efforts of the PUCP Film Library and collectives fighting to rescue what remains of Peruvian cinema.
Against the celebration, in 1992, of the 500 years of the so-called "Discovery of America." Short that claims our language and culture.
Short film.
Miguel wakes up and remembers he has a date later that day. Between taking care of his plants, feeding his cat and looking for what to wear, he starts doubting if its a good idea to go or stay at home.
Dante, a lonely and ordinary man, forms a seemingly romantic connection with Nadia, a magnetic and enigmatic woman. But what begins as a seductive night turns into the complete opposite...
The story of a girl born in the time of the Shining Path, whose personal development was marked by the violence of the social context in which she had to learn to fend for herself, and to take responsibility for her daughter's life
Documentary on the impact of the monopoly in the milk business on small farmers in Peru
Angela Ramos, the first woman journalist, irreverent and passionate figure in Peruvian intellectual and political life. She is a key figure in understanding the role of women in the Peruvian scene, an issue that currently deserves the greatest consideration in academic, intellectual, and political debates and forums.
Narrates the workers' struggles at the beginning of the 20th century, the lengthy process of achieving the 8-hour workday, finally conquered on January 19, 1919, in which anarchist ideas played a fundamental role. Subsequently, during "el Oncenio de Leguía" (1919-1930), ideological and political currents of aprismo and socialism emerged, led by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre and José Carlos Mariátegui, which left a mark on the country's life.
Huq’ariy weaves the coastal landscape of Northern Peru and California, with a cinematic portrait of Elsa, performing a ritual stemming from Moche tradition. The healer invokes forces invisible and visible: nature, ocean, mountains, spirits, to begin a journey that casts a spell of transformation
Documentary. Directed by Enrique Castro Farías. Published by Ediciones Cinematográficas Internacionales.
A woman is hypnotized by a mysterious subject and, one by one, begins to lose all her senses.
Claudia, the day before preparing for her final exam, begins to question herself and experience her stress more severely, to the point of putting herself in danger.
Alejandro and Leandra, two office workers who are victims of an oppressive system, seek freedom through play, bringing out their most primitive side.
First result of a series of films in which I focus on filming a 360° tour with the camera on its own axis. This time, portraying Plaza Sol in Madrid at two different times. Moving in one direction, I shoot three frames for each shot, leaving the next three frames unexposed. Weeks later, through the process of manually rewinding the reel, I take back the black frames and shoot them in the opposite direction. An attempt to create a tension between opposite directions, both of the camera and the filmed bodies.
After being rejected by the girl of his dreams because of the color of his skin, Roberto Lopez will be transformed from a brown-skinned Peruvian into a blond American.
In the last 30 years, the presidents of Peru have been corrupt and criminal. 'Message to the Nation' serves as a reminder of their lies and false promises. It's a journey through their voices, propaganda, and speeches. It's also a documentation of the director's son's childhood, as he tries to make him remember his early years while also revealing the truth about their country: a nation plagued by corruption.
Rember Yahuarcani is an indigenous artist from the Uitoto Nation who lives in Lima, Peru. From his clan, the White Heron, only two families remain in Peru. Rember's paintings are inspired by the stories his grandmother Martha told him before she died. However, he has never dived into the darkest part of his nation’s history: the indigenous massacre during the rubber boom. Martha is a survivor of the horror and she speaks to Rember in dreams guiding him in a spiritual journey back to the jungle. He first visits his parents, who are also artists, in the Peruvian jungle. And finally, he sails to La Chorrera, in Colombia, where he confronts the past and meets other members of his clan.
Film about the fall and capture of the former head of the peruvian intelligent service Vladimiro Montesinos.
The life of a boy named Celendino, who dreamed of being a policeman and a mime.
A journey through the year from the perspective of a Huanta native who returns to his homeland after many years, where he discovers wonders he did not enjoy as a child: carnivals, the festival of the crosses, national holidays, the Maynay national fair, among other festive and cultural activities that he discovers and narrates.
A professor and his students try to capture the severed head of a witch, because according to belief, they will be rewarded for it if they keep the facts secret.
A night watchman at a company falls asleep and dreams that his wife is cheating on him with his brother. Distressed upon waking, he rushes home and finds his wife engaged in a lively conversation with his brother. This scene arouses the watchman’s suspicions, forcing him to make a final decision.
Imagination rules the world
Two brothers arrive at a house to try to rebuild their lives in a new city; They live with the tenants and little by little they will realize that paranormal events are happening.
Four friends, Xenesis, Crazzy, Hugo and Joel, celebrate their high school graduation, with plans to leave the town they live in and follow their dreams.
A surreal trip across the expectations and insecurities of growing up.