Discoveries from Peru World Cinema

Documentary about the force of the scissors dance, its historical importance and cultural resistance through the body and its movements.

Christopher, a gay teenager who is about to turn 16, wishes to have his first encounter with a man. He has decided to leave prejudices behind and assume his orientation freely, proposing to the boy he usually spies when he plays sports: Renato. However, there is a problem: the person Christopher has fallen in love with doesn't love him back. Is it possible that Renato will listen to him?

Amazonic fishes disguise as woman living peacefully but soon will be in great danger since predators are lurking very close.

José María Arguedas, a child and orphan, seeks refuge at the Viseca estate and comes into contact with Quechua indigenous people.

Movie from Juliaca.

Kinok that seeks to discover what is Lima.

Journey through the water and the history of the Kukama, who inhabit the Amazon in Peru

Film made in Abancay.

Elvis and Fernanda are two young people from different social classes who are in a romantic relationship. Love or fate will have to decide their future.

With nothing better to do, Carlos starts filming his family and friends. He wants to make a documentary, but he doesn't know what it's about yet.

A group of subversive filmmakers record themselves while kidnapping other filmmakers as revenge for having distorted their favorite genre: the mockumentary.

It is a vision of the human groups that live in the deserts of the northern coast of Peru, of the desertification processes and the reforestation work in the area.

A 35-year-old priest, marked by a secret love affair with a man in his youth, faces the internal conflict between his faith and the desires of his heart.

Justo Huaman is an adult who dreams of being a superhero "Human The Peruvian Power" who tries to get a sidekick "El Blanco Power"

Explore the life of the Motilona community, part of the Kichua-Lamista ethnic group of the Peruvian Amazon, preserving their memory and cultural wealth.

A sequence of family anecdotes and historical events coinciding with the artist's date of birth takes on a different tone as he unearths what happened in his native Peru on that specific day in 1989. The monotonous pattern of facts pertaining to the 31st of May suddenly begins to unveil connections to notions of oppressive masculinity, the nuanced tactics employed by imperialist forces, and a neoliberal dream that facilitated the neglect of an important episode in Peruvian history.

A Peruvian father labours patiently, chipping at the white volcanic stone that forms an extraordinary landscape. His son is part of the modern world: he uses cameras and drones in order to create the digital model of a church on a computer. Separated by the mysterious death of the wife/mother figure in the family, these men do not connect. And yet their paths cross in a ghostly manner, as do their professions: each in their own way works with textures and volumes, sensations and perceptions. Can the realm of digital art recreate and revivify the old world? Can it also awaken hearts grown lonely and cold?

A failed singer tries to improve his show with a trick up his sleeve.

Somewhere in a distopic future a couple of recyclers try to protect their daughter from a dangerous scrap dealer.

Ana just had her heart broken and not only the city could hear it but feel it wih a tremor. In a society that suppresses feelings she must choose between controlling them or extracting her heart.

From his inner world, a homosexual expresses himself and leaves a crude testimony about an intolerant society.

12 short stories, month after month, shows the evolution of a mysterious and terrible virus that makes the dead rise to devour the living.

A private video of Maria goes viral during a volleyball class in a school in Lima, a city where cyber bullying is becoming more common.

Three stories, two people, and one outcome. A couple's third date is seen in three different situations where, despite their best efforts, nothing seems to go right. She hasn't gotten over a past relationship; he simply seems unlucky in love. Both will try to break free from their circumstances, only to encounter failure and discontent, which seems to seal their fate.

The State supported the initiative of the Provincial Vicariate of Ucayali, of the Franciscan Order, to produce *The Conquest of the Jungle*, a feature film intended to showcase abroad—especially at the Seville Exposition—the progress of Franciscan teaching in the Peruvian Amazon region. The deputy for Ucayali, Navy Captain Abraham A. de Rivero, sponsored the film's production, along with the Apostolic Vicar of Ucayali, Monsignor Francisco Irasola, and the Very Reverend Father Buenaventura Uriarte, Provincial of the Discalced Friars. The project had the endorsement of the President of the Republic, Augusto B. Leguía.

From pictorial expression in huacos and textiles, paintings of the independence struggle to the abstract works of contemporary artists.

Documentary about a school for blind children.

A 2001 report aired by Frecuencia Latina on the late-night interviews and current affairs program Nadie se Duerma with Beto Ortiz. Martín and I were granted access to accompany the permanent patients of the Victor Larco Herrera Psychiatric Hospital for several days. Some had been there for more than 20 years. The vast majority would never leave. Their stories are repeated throughout Peru, with even more pain and sadness, and without the daily medication and care that they receive.

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.

A shy boy of humble origins, during his first day of school, must endure the mistreatment and humiliation of another boy, son of his mother's employers.

On April 6, 1925, La Colonizadora was established, a company formed by Julio César Arana, the rubber baron; Carlos González, Luis Alberto Blume, Rosendo Badani, Julio Ego Aguirre, and the Italians Pascual Chiarella, Hugo Tomenotti, Esteban Campodónico, and Esteban Massa. The company's purpose was to carry out colonization work in eastern Peru, especially in an area of ​​one million hectares, granted for exploitation to the Tomenotti Concession, and located between the Ucayali, Palcazu, Pichis, and Pachitea rivers. The company conducted an advertising campaign to attract investors to its colonization activity, establishing agricultural, mining, and industrial companies in the jungle region. The feature-length documentary Tras los Andes (hacia el paraíso peruano) was part of that campaign

A production of the Villa Cáritas and San Pedro schools together with the University of Lima.

Documentary about Venezuelan migration.

Would you be able to leave everything behind to pursue your dreams? Pablo Yglesias, a resident of Barcelona, ​​decided in 2013 to change his life and start a biosphere conservation project in the Amazon of Peru.

Pibia Awin is one of five Iskobakebo (Isconahua) elders who were uprooted from their village and now live in the Callería River basin in Peru. They are the last surviving Iskobakebo, a people who lived deep in the forest, in isolation. An unexpected visit suggests that their relatives are in the Brazilian Amazon, and thus the hope of reunion is born. This documentary brings us closer to the world of the Indigenous people living in voluntary isolation on the Peru-Brazil border and the serious threats they face, such as the Pucallpa-Cruzeiro do Sul highway, illegal logging, drug trafficking, and territorial conflicts that put their existence in constant danger.

Documentary about Julio "Chocolate" Algendones Farfán, a prominent percussionist, composer, and performer of Afro-Peruvian music and jazz. He was considered the great master of the cajón and was internationally recognized.

A film by Luis Gozales.

It's a romantic comedy; beneath a story of romantic entanglements, Dalmer subtly addresses the theme of sexual prejudice: two close friends face difficulties with their acquaintances and family when it becomes known that one of them is gay. The plot raises the issue of respect for differences.

Video about the occupied social center Minuesa

Paulo, a young college student, is determined to stop being the invisible boy. On his 20th birthday, he records what he hopes will be the party that will increase his popularity among his classmates. Along with his best friend Sergio, he organizes a night that, he believes, will mark a turning point in his social life.

‘El obedecedario’ (The Obedient One), made by young Peruvian filmmaker Juan Daniel F. Molero, is a short film donated to promote the second edition of the Lima Independiente Film Festival, held from 16 to 24 June 2012.

“Tenants” tells the 2003-set story of Edwin and Maria, two immigrants from Lima, Peru, who relocated to Madrid in search of a better life. With minimal resources, they move into the only house they can afford, only to discover that it is inhabited by racist spirits who want to subjugate the couple.

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Alfonso is a 53 year old counter from Lima, which is diligently to fulfill a purpose. Sometimes we do not know how the mind plays when we deny our own humanity, our imperfections are what makes us being.

Jorge, a retired hitman, returns to his bloody job after the sudden death of his son. However, the ghost of guilt will not leave him alone and will make him question the meaning of his actions.

Nicolás (22) inherits a restaurant in a northern Peruvian port from his father, whom he has not seen for years. He decides to sell it and travels to the place but bureaucracy delays his plans. As the days go by and as he gets involved with the restaurant's staff, he discovers the reasons for his father's abandonment and confronts his own prejudices, finally being able to reconcile with his memory and the past.

“She” and “He” live at opposite ends of Lima. They don't know each other, but they share a common thread: their routine solitude, their fractured social lives, and certain places in the capital that reflect their inner realities. The film explores the experience of living alone in the capital, with its feelings of desolation and unease, and the difficulties in connecting with others—a situation that transcends gender, social, economic, or cultural background.

Expectante is a fiction that emulates some apparently dangerous situations evoking the constant paranoia of an insecurity city's people.

Follow Sofia Mulanovich as she pursues her childhood dream of becoming a professional women's world surfing champion. In the process, she became a national icon and role model in her homeland.

Peruvian film based on the reality that was lived in the 80s where the subversive forces and the military forces made great damage in the regions of Ayacucho, Apurimac and others, where entire families were affected, who were persecuted by poverty and disease they had to migrate to other places to be able to face the needs they had.

A man imagines having the strength, seduction, and power of fictional heroes. He dreams of being like James Bond, Bruce Lee, or Rocky. Suddenly, he finds himself embroiled in a police plot from which he emerges unscathed.

Elody is a young woman who stutters. She and her friend Naomi discover a very unusual book, one that can only be read by one person. Elody understands this mystery and tries not to arouse suspicion. After reading seven chapters (End of Autumn, I Will Trust You, My Destiny Is in Your Hands, Nany's Letter, I Messed Up, The Absence of a Light, Yno's Dream), she decides to tell her friend, and together they attempt to finish the book, believing it to be haunted.

Film by Lizandro Ludeña.

Short film.