Discoveries from Peru World Cinema

Filmed by Benjamin Valverde.

It contains: Captain Sisson leaving Ancón on his way to Paita; Atlético Chalaco; the Government Palace at night; views of the mountains; racehorses from the Alianza stud farm in Vilcahuara; cockfighting; a street in Lima on a workday; the Corpus Christi festival; the Corpus Christi procession is accompanied by President Leguía and the Ministers of State; the presentation of the marshal's baton to Andrés A. Cáceres by President Leguía and the review of the troops.

Theater and Cinema Company. Filmed by Jorge Goitizolo.

Cinema Theater Company. Filmed by Jorge Goitizolo

Produced by the Goumont Company in Peru.

His Excellency Manuel Candamo, then President of Peru.

Maritza. David. Mother Nature. MaritzaDavidMotherNature, Biodanza-Rhythm, Synchronization, Fusion (everything is particles of light in constant motion), Mutation, Affection (Why not?), Desire (perhaps to become one), Interaction, Healing, Contact, Everyday Life (even knowing that they hadn't practiced together for two years), Breath (which tends to become one), Well-being, Nature, Life. Intrauterine Dreaming?

Three highly dangerous criminals escape from prison and attempt to flee the region where they were serving their sentences. On their journey, they decide to rob a traveler, stealing his vehicle and taking him hostage for his release. After obtaining the ransom, they decide to kill the hostage; however, they are spotted by a group of young people who were out for a stroll in the area. As a result, a manhunt begins.

On a bus trip, a girl has to deal with an aggressive and irrational atmosphere. Without any logical explanation, all the passengers start staring at her.

After forty years of living in the Peruvian highlands, the Swiss priest Otto Brun offers us a sincere testimony in which he speaks of his marriage and his three daughters; of his pastoral work from the point of view of Liberation Theology and his conflicts with the hierarchy of the Church; of how to speak of God to those who have been "despised in their human condition"; of how haphazard his path of faith is.

The "El Averno" Cultural Center is a self-managed association located on Jr. Quilca in downtown Lima, an emblematic spot for the city's underground rock and cultural scene. After 14 years of contributing to culture by promoting events and showcasing countercultural artists in poetry, music, painting, sculpture, and many other forms of artistic expression, it is facing eviction due to problems with the owners of the premises they occupy. Jorge "El Negro" Acosta, the association's founder, recounts the history of El Averno. The video shows the last event held at the venue, a concert that reunited some of those who participated in the cultural center's inauguration.

Three young women agree to be recorded; being recorded raises more questions than answers about them.

Based on a work (Ego Naufragios, by Miguel Blásica, 2022) based on a work (Naufragios, by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, 1540) based on the fracturing of consciousness. The work of the body, the work of light and the work of zoom stand out as fundamental elements.

Archival footage, ‘found’, paints a stark but accurate portrait of the middle class, and, incidentally, of the right-wing mentality. Almost casually. It's a relatively fictionalized or imagined version of a ‘normal’ family at the time of their disappearance.

The directors present a wealth of powerful images and micro-stories that range from aesthetic beauty to the politically incorrect. Old age, impending decline, promises of immortality, appearances, or even death itself, are nothing in this perpetual cycle without their counterpart: life.

At Santa Monica prison, six women from different countries are serving six-year, eight-month sentences for the crime of being drug mules. We know of their remorse and their efforts to make prison a decent place to live.

Carlos, the parish priest, feels his life change after Ana's approach. Strange things begin to happen to him, attributed to a spell cast by her and her friends, which leads the priest to commit a grave act against his faith. Accidentally drawn into this game, the church sacristan experiences conflicting emotions and, confused by his feelings, reacts fatally, giving rise to the legend.

Exhibition of the austere and viceregal architecture of the convent and temple of San Francisco in Lima.

Short film.

At midnight the bread is baked, at dawn it is delivered house by house as the city wakes up.

Short film.

The José María Arguedas Theatre Group of Andahuaylas brings scenes of daily life to rural schools in this territory with the intention of reflecting on rural reality and thinking together about the education that is desired.

Documentary about the work of firefighters and their fight against fire.

Victoria, a seamstress exhausted by hardship, sustains the fragile existence of her brother Lucas, who lives confined to a wheelchair in an environment of extreme poverty. However, prolonged deprivation awakens something dark: a monstrous transformation in Lucas that drives him to devour everything.

A screenwriter encounters the protagonist of his stories, who seeks him out to write a better ending.

In 2012, the Peruvian government gave the green light to the Conga mining project in Cajamarca. It wasn’t the first time that mining threatened this region with its expansion projects. For over twenty years, Yanacocha—the largest open-pit gold mine in Latin America—has endangered water resources. In this context, from the heart of the Andean jalca, a women’s resistance was born. Neither attacks nor fear have managed to stop these women who, with conviction and hope, raise their voices in the fight to protect life, Pachamama, and water. Three years later, the Blue Ladies are still standing, singing for freedom.

A powerful parallel between the short life of the mayflies and the patriarchal violence that affect women.

Manan Kanchu Para recounts Nicolás Sayhua's concern, shared by his community, about the severe drought affecting southern Peru. The lack of water is affecting the agriculture on which they depend for their livelihood.

Short documentary directed by Berta Saldaña —who directed State newsreels for three different and opposing governments: Velasco Alvarado, Morales Bermúdez and Belaunde Terry— for the Empresa de Servicio de Informaciones (ESI) about the United Nations-funded Proyecto Experimental de Vivienda (PREVI) and the self-managed grasroots settlement of Villa El Salvador.

"kinok sweetness + kinok anti kinok sweetness" ... kinoks = sweetness?

A Quechua teenager can’t sing since her mother passed away until she is confronted by her grief in the Peruvian Andes.

Tribute to the old and closed movie theater palaces in Lima (Perú) and to the movie going rituals of the fifties.

Documentary made by a team of Soviet filmmakers in order to pay tribute to Peru and the Revolutionary Government of General Juan Velasco Alvarado. It is a journey through different regions of the country together with archive images.

Dan is a 20-year-old boy returning home after a long trip. Upon entering his house, we can see the anticipation of how Dan wanted to be welcomed by his family.

Early every morning, young Jorge harvests bananas with his machete. After breakfast back in his village, he wanders with his friends in the lush wilderness around the Amazon headwaters. Childhood could hardly be more carefree or peaceful.

A young soldier rebels against the abuse of his superior.

A homeless man lives in a makeshift shack made of cardboard and junk. At night he travels the expressway collecting waste from the city and meets other nocturnal characters.

A son visits his elderly and ill mother, however things do not go as planned.

Luz an artist sculpts an andean demon know as Supay, obssesed with perfectionism work has become a torture and her mental stability is fading, this will only get to a breakpoint when the truth about his artworks is discovered.

Luis Pardo, witness to the murder of his sister at the hands of the gamonal Cesar Pradera, seeks revenge and becomes a bandit, stealing from the rich to give to the poor.

Documentary that narrates the origins and acts of the Shining Path and the injustices committed by the Armed Forces at the time of the internal armed conflict in Peru. The acts of the former will be seen in Lima and Ayacucho, and the latter mostly in Ayacucho.

Early 1990s, Diego, a 15 year-old teenager, is the "New kid in town" in a Peruvian middle-class neighborhood. Diego tries to fit in a group of friends, some of them older than him. In the middle of the country's situation,convulsed by subversive terrorist attacks, military actions, social disconcert and political instability, Diego has to develop his identity, influenced by the group pressures imposed by the paradigms of adolescent life, more interested in the football, video games, technology, girls, parties, sex, music, fights, television and the beach. Through they eyes of a group of teenagers we see a traditional urban middle class, that lives a life apart and mostly indifferent to the situation lived inside the country. But step by step this situation begins to affect their everyday life.

This shows in an abstract way the creation of different sexual fetishes, represented as multiple personalities within each one of us. This idea was born from the concept of Parthenogenesis, a type of sexual reproduction that consists of the development of a reproductive cell until a new individual is formed, without any fertilization.

Calm and sleep through time. We wake up and in the face of the recent sensitive events that have taken place in Peru and the world. No te salves generates a reflection and a call for attention with a hopeful message.

A group of people get together to experience a drag king workshop.

An overflowing work of audiovisual appropriation that resignifies images and sounds from the political world and television spectacle of Peru, mainly from the nineties. A compilation that subverts and looks squarely at the portrait of a country that appears deformed and monstrous on the screens of trash television

1983. State of emergency in Ayacucho (Peru). The political-military command sets up its base at Los Cabitos headquarters. These barracks soon turn into a clandestine centre of detention, torture, enforced disappearance and extrajudicial execution of Shining Path suspects.

Between 1982 and 2000, the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) waged a guerilla war in Peru, becoming one of the most brutal terrorist groups of the 20th century. The conflict began in the Ayacucho region, where many Andean people were victimized and killed. Photographers Vera Lentz, Alejandro Balaguer, and Oscar Medrano managed to capture the horror and pain this war caused—and now, years later, they revisit the subjects and locales captured in their photos. Volver a ver tells a story that is not often told, about the tragedies that took place in Peru for nearly two decades, using the lens of art to reveal memories that question an official history that elides the indigenous contribution to the peace process.