Discoveries from Peru World Cinema

A young man spends an entire night making a cordon bleu.

A hunchbacked boy who is the fruit of an incestuous love is possessed by the spirit of his father, who orders him to murder the members of the community who executed him in the past.

Filmed during a 12-day workshop in the Amazon rainforest of Peru under the mentorship of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, La presencia de lo ausente is intended to be a farewell letter, but on its journey it becomes an exercise in memory, time, trauma and the lack. The encounter with humidity, mosquitoes, the sound of a walkie-talkie and two surveyors triggers the memory and begins the contemplation.

Based on the life of the Lima crier Don Leónidas Gonzales in charge of the production of the traditional Revolución Caliente crispy cookie. He says that with a kerosene lamp in his hand at six in the afternoon he toured the squares of Miraflores, Magdalena and Barranco, shouting in a singsong voice: “Revolución Caliente, music for the teeth; sugar, cloves and cinnamon, to grind the teeth. perhaps he is the last vestige of a tradition.

Yaqui dreams of wearing a beautiful dress at her school graduation party, in Antaymisa, a community between three thousand meters high mountains, in Peru. Upon discovering that her brother-in-law has once again beaten her older sister to death, and as she deals with an unpleasant first sexual experience, she begins to feel uncomfortable at the silence of everyone around her. . Fed up but dressed for the party, Ella Yaqui renounces her adolescent ideal and faces the problem in the only way she can.

A small film crew (cinematographer and sound director) goes in search of the traces of Tío Lino, a storyteller from the last century, whose stories transmitted orally have remained in the collective imagination of the residents of Contumaza

A young girl lands a paraglider in downtown Lima. As she moves through the city and along the beach, memories come flooding back. Recalling the time she spent accompanying two of her friends as they underwent clandestine abortions, she wonders what her presence meant to them, what her role as accompanist consisted of.

The documentary is part of the visual project “No se nace violento, se llegó a serlo: historias de vida masculinas en Lima” (You are not born violent, you become violent: male life stories in Lima), based on an ethnography carried out with seven men who attend the reeducation space of the AURORA program of the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations, CAI-Breña Institutional Care Center.

Shot in 8mm, hand-developed, juxtaposed with digital sound designed with scientific microphones, ‘2 REELS’ is a sonic and visual exploration made in one day at home in Trujillo - Peru.

Behind the story a film tells, there is a little-known parallel story, the story of how the film was made. Several decades after the premiere of “The Green Wall”, the film's director, members of the film crew and the actor who played Romulus draw on their memories to tell the little-known story of how “The Green Wall” was made

María, a 16-year-old teenager, embarks on a journey towards her sexual liberation, in a moralistic, hypocritical and still quite religious city.

Luna discovers an old blog of her mother, who died a year ago, where she meets her friends. She tries to contact them to make a tiktok-documentary. However, it is not so easy for her to reach them.

Blas Arará, an afro-peruvian slave from a plantation, will try to teach an Andean boy how to dance Morenada. Given the fact that the dance is an affront to the landowners, his Creole boss decides to teach Blas a lesson.

A colorful young windshield wiper makes a living at traffic lights in downtown Lima.

Mamanchi tells the story of a Peruvian Andean mother teaching her children about the value of work.

This documentary is a look at the historic Tricycle Marathon through a detailed record focused on the competitors and their tricycles, as well as the logistics of the event and shots of the cheering crowd along the route.

A documentary about Alan García based on a series of archival materials

After memories of the past are unleashed, a daughter reaches the limit of the conflictive relationship with her mother in the middle of a birthday celebration.

The life and legend of Arequipa poet Mariano Melgar (1791-1815), hero of the insurrection led by José Angulo and chief Mateo Pumacahua in the Viceroyalty of Peru in 1815.

Seven young people mysteriously disappear after a night of camping in the golden forest, located in the city of Huancayo. They are intensely searched for without obtaining any results, until a year later a video camera is found hidden inside a cemetery, where the camera reveals everything that happened to them.

In one of the most remote places in the Peruvian Amazon, an Ashéninka boy must overcome his fears and catch a giant catfish using only a hook to start his journey as an adult.

Observational short film made during a barbecue

"Ten Years of Revolution" tells the story of the struggle, resistance and rebellion of Epicentro Trujillo, a cultural LGBTIQ+ organization from Trujillo since its beginnings in 2011 to its passage through the COVID 19 era.

What motivates a 17-year-old girl to sing in her ancestral language? Renata Flores, singer, songwriter and activist of the Quechua language revalues and promotes the native language of her ancestors through music, mixing Andean sounds with modern genres.

The film exposes / narrates two worlds: The life of today's youth and the life of a university professor. Although each one knows and dominates his space, the interrelation of both worlds is inevitable and fatal if he decides to cross the line that separates them.

After the Agrarian Reform enacted in 1969 by the government led by Juan Velasco Alvarado, the Andean communities recovered their land, obtained fundamental rights such as access to public education and the possibility of working for themselves. From then on, life alternatives opened up for the children of the Andes who, unlike their predecessors, could attend school, although they still had to face many scarcities. This film looks at the lives of these children, who, together with their communities, are trying to move forward.

In this alternative map of Iquitos we walk through the architectural vestiges of the rubber era, where each node is a facade of empty holes and beautiful tiles imported by the rubber tappers who tried to replicate within our jungle a little piece of their Europe, at the cost of exploitation and murder of more than 100 Amazonian primitive communities/ethnicities. The journey through these points of the city seeks to be an exercise where, through reflection, the bodies and the present occupy that emptiness, to claim it as their own.

Where are we going? shows the routine of people in their daily lives and how it goes hand in hand with the chaos of the city of Lima. The Documentary returns to the memory of our old normality, Where are we going? Maybe now we can answer that question, or not.

María is a teenager, from a rural environment, who is late for her first period. She experiences the transformations of her body as something monstrous, she is a shy young woman who suffers abuse, isolation and discrimination in school. Her family and the community do not tolerate her because of her own behavior, a man, these attitudes will be reason for her classmates, led by Aquiles, to humiliate her physically and psychologically.

Humans, Animals, Earth, Wind and Water, converge with the same energy of a filmic fire, which crosses and relates them. By the appropriation of educational images of 16 mm films, which in the past were used to educate us, Animal Within evokes a poetic collision between images of the human and the animal.

In a town of violence and crime, a policeman works sternly. But with his cheerful, outgoing personality, he becomes the clown TRAMPOLIN.

It will reveal previously unseen testimonies and images about what happened a year ago, when Pedro Castillo announced the closure of Congress hours before the vote on his removal.

Francisco Caamaño, lead singer and founder of Mr. Pucho, will recount his personal sacrifices and those of the people who were part of the group. During the performances leading up to the band's anniversary concert, Francisco will question whether it's truly worth continuing.

To return to intuition is to return to our nature, going through each internal space accepting all of our voices and allowing them to speak all they need to. It implies entering life following our perishable wisdom that whispers to us and invites us to walk down a path, trusting in who we are and reminding us that we will walk, always, accompanied by all those women who live within us.

While the mother of filmmaker Heddy Honigmann prepares a Yiddish delicacy, Heddy serves up a portion of family history.

The story of how a peasant mother tries to save her son from death using shamanic rituals.

Amadeo García García is the last man to speak his language. When he goes, an entire culture will disappear. We went to find him in the Amazon jungle.

An irrigator in northern Peru transforms sugarcane into sweet cane, inspired by the poetic narration 'Hay Sí, Santiago Paisi' by César Calvo

A short film by Rafael Arevalo.

The life of Saint Dominic Savio adapted to this era, narrating his experiences in three stages: at four, ten and fourteen years of age.

We hear the inner dialogue of Priscilla, a man, as he applies makeup and transforms himself in front of the mirror, recalling how he went from feeling guilty about having HIV to becoming an activist without a mask, overcoming his guilt and fears.

Ella (Sonia Aguilar) is a very humble woman who lives in a small town in Puno with her children. She suffers greatly because her husband (Hernando Pari) beats her and her children. Everything in Ella's house is a sea of ​​tears because they are abused daily, both physically and psychologically, by her husband. One day, a friend of her daughter tells her that she saw Ella's husband with another woman. Ella can't believe it; she thinks it must be a client. What she doesn't know is that her husband, who always claims he doesn't earn enough money as a lawyer because there's too much competition, is actually cheating on her daily with another woman. Soon, the father will demonstrate the depths of his indifference, irresponsibility, and cruelty. Meanwhile, the mother will reveal the lengths to which she will go for the love of her children.

The Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Peru wanted to promote active recreation and sports activities that reclaim the past and project the country towards modernity. Thus, the Chasquis Race was organized to rescue the ancestral figure of the Inca's personal messenger who, through a system of posts, transported information throughout the Tahuantinsuyo.

Reduced cut of the feature film by Luis Figueroa Chiaraje.

From Frederick Rossiff's Savage Opera series.

The difficulties of an Andean education teacher in fulfilling his mission in a Campa indigenous community.

This documentary showcases the work of farmers in the Chira River Valley who, by harnessing the region's natural resources (wind for mills and wood), are expanding their farmland. The documentary benefited from the expertise of Alfredo Oliveros and Guido Ucelli, wind energy specialists.

The elderly Julio Peñafiel, charango player and childhood friend of José María Arguedas (1911-1969), proudly plows and harvests his lands.

A group of women from the town sing traditional hymns to the Lord of Miracles, the purple Christ; their voices are lost amidst the roar of the crowd and the thunder of the marching bands.

Report on the former glories of Creole singing, the duo formed by the brothers Rosa and Alejandro Ascoy known as La Limeñita and Ascoy.

Documentary.

This short film deals with the hunting of the whale or sperm whale on the southern coast of our coastline and the procedure to which this animal is subjected to extract the oil.

[...] in which you can appreciate the progress made by the Municipality; constructions, paving, education. You can admire the most distinguished young ladies of the town [...].

It tells the story of a mountain girl who arrives in the capital and becomes overwhelmed by its hustle and bustle, falling into the abyss of life and degradation.

It contains: across Lake Titicaca (the cities of Puno, Pomata, Juli, Ilave, roads leading to the lake, indigenous dances); the arrival of Roberto E. Leguía; the great cycling race between Lima and Lurín; regattas between the Canottieri Italia club, Lima and the University in Callao; an afternoon of races at the racetrack; the Argentine national celebration in Lima; memories of the plebiscite (a day in Arica, Chilean fantasies and current events).

It contains: the 1924 bathing season; Ancón, La Punta, Chorrillos, Barranco, Miraflores; familiar faces; gatherings at the racetrack; party at the Cincinnati; the great Frontón-Callao swimming race; the rough seas of Callao.