Discoveries from Peru World Cinema

The story of a composer who becomes romantically involved with a nightclub dancer chased by his ex-partner, while the drink "tamarind juice" is the perfect aphrodisiac.

The linking of three characters in a kind of mutual deceit. Different points of view, attitudes and a look at relationships marked by social and cultural differences.

Short film.

Magallanes sees his humdrum life turn upside down the day Celina, a women he met in the violent years when he was a soldier with the Peruvian Army, jumps into his taxi in a Lima street. This unexpected re-encounter after 25 years with the dark past that unites them prompts Magallanes to embark on a daring plan to help Celina get money and find his own redemption.

Antonio is not satisfied with his physique. When he meets again with Cynthia, her eternal love from her youth, he tries to conquer her, but she announces that she is in love with Gerardo and asks him for help to conquer him. Antonio will do anything to avoid this relationship, while he undergoes fun treatments, diets and exercises to lose weight and become the type of man he thinks Cynthia likes.

The story tells the story and experiences of a middle-class family living under the physical and psychological abuse of Manuel, Maritza's husband and father of her three children Rosa, Judith and Frank, who will suffer not only the fury of their father but also that of society.

Documentary about the Lima 2019 Pan American Games.

A treasure hunter embarks on a search for a legendary treasure that belonged to explorer Christopher Columbus. Motivated by his mentor's dream, he embarks on a dangerous journey, where he unexpectedly finds an ally in a young man from the street, who becomes his apprentice as together they face the challenges of adventure.

Esperanza, a nurse about to retire, becomes involved in the lives of two young patients from a psychiatric center, fallen angels with opposite goals: vengeance and recovery through love.

Javi Fuentes, a talk show host, loses his sense of humour after his father's death. He is replaced by an unbearable influencer and hires Alfonsina, a stand-up comedian, to regain his spark and save the show.

The film immerses us in the history and culture of this Amazonian people and tells us about their tough fight against terrorism.

The story of Alex, a humble police watchman who decides to take control of his luck. After his girlfriends breaks up with him, he decides to steal $ 80,000 and lead a life full of adventures , fulfilling all of his desires.

The film revolves around the transgressive behaviors of young people from Lima who suffer the contamination of the social environment in the hope of seeing the achievement of their small ambitions. Three episodes.

Gerardo is a young man with limited financial resources who works as a public speaker in various squares and streets of Lima. One day, after work, his boss offers him a job that goes against his moral principles, forcing him to choose between accepting the job and betraying his ideals, or refusing it and facing severe financial hardship.

X arrives in Lima to rescue Karla, who is now forced into prostitution on the streets of downtown Lima by Beto, with whom she has a child. Upon arriving in downtown Lima, X settles in an old neighborhood, learning to live among the lower classes and survive in the underworld of Lima's nightlife. Miguel Eduardo Sandoval Ramírez, "Chino Miky," is a marginalized young man from Lima who, fed up with his precarious economic situation, decides to work as a hitman for a drug trafficker known as El Colombiano.

Eleuterio Ccallo (64) has dedicated nearly five decades to the renovation of the Q’eswachaka bridge in Cusco. Thanks to his extensive experience, he has become one of the most renowned artisanal engineers in the community of Huinchiri. However, due to the risks involved in this work, coupled with his advanced age, he is nearing retirement. This is where the figure of Jorge Ccallo, his son, becomes relevant, as he is destined to be the next 'chakaruwaq' (bridge builder).

A legend of Argentine rock travels to Iquitos to find an old Healer and participate in his Ayahuasca ceremony. You will have to go through the jungle and your own ghosts, on your way to healing.

This stop-mtion short film depicts how former Beatle, Paul McCartney, meets John Lennon, transitioning to the present during the "Get Back" tour.

The Dessola family, who has never met in the past two years, has finally gathered together on Christmas Eve this year. Leonardo is a politician who has been busy with work for many years and neglects his family. On Christmas Eve, he took his girlfriend back to his hometown and his family reunion - son Pavel, daughter Adul and 9-year-old grandson Buri, what is it, His current girlfriend is Pavel's ex-girlfriend. The rare reunion has gradually become a battlefield of new hatred and old hatred, and every family member has something to say. The night is still very long, how should the Dysola family end this rare Christmas Eve in this chaos?

In the 1940s, a middle-aged man becomes obsessed with a much younger girl who has just arrived from the capital to the Villaaltiva region in Huanta, Ayacucho.

A couple tries anything they can to keep a restaurant from going broke.

Jorge Luna and Ricardo Mendoza, the Peruvian comedians behind the phenomenon that redefined Spanish-language stand-up, face their biggest challenge yet: filling Madison Square Garden. Just as they decide to show the human side of their empire, an emergency threatens to ruin everything. Through interviews, never-before-seen footage, and intimate moments, the film traces a story of friendship, risk, and resilience, from their pandemic-era live streams to their eventful international tour.

Ronnie Monroy has had an unmeaningful life as a public employee. About to turn 65 and face retirement he discovers the Women’s Prison, where he finds a new purpose.

In this previously unreleased work, César A. Vivanco presents one of his first documentaries, exploring various facets of the Virgen del Carmen festival in Paucartambo, Cusco. The documentary reflects on the encounters and dynamics surrounding this unique celebration, providing a profound and revealing insight into it.

Romantic film that tells the love story of three men from different decades.

After the death of her husband, Cecilia joins her childhood friends to embark on a trip to Pacasmayo that will put their friendship to the test.

Short film by Javier Ponce.

'M' is an old woman who lives adrift: a lonely shadow that crosses her own geography every day. She spends her days dreaming about her past, until one day she finds something very similar to her - an ant. M decides to share her world haunted by nostalgic memories and a dark presence, until the day a "mechanical angel" arrives to help her...

Eduardo is 12 years old when he realizes that he is not like the other children in his town. The macho family structure and the physical brutality with which his older brothers fight the first signs of his transsexuality, leave the boy no other way out than to flee his home and his town. Not even the indifference of the city serves as protection. Prostitution exposes him even more to a society that does not know how to respond to what it does not understand, if not with mistreatment and aggression.

Faced with the end of her life, a 70-year-old woman is determined to make the most of the time she has left, by growing closer to her six-year-old granddaughter. However, an unforeseen threat puts everything she holds dear at risk, leaving her to confront how far she’s truly willing to go.

Martina and Sofía love each other and want to start a family, but the process is proving to be difficult and expensive… very expensive. Martina naively makes a reckless decision: she devises a crazy plan to get pregnant and she succeeds. Now he has two serious problems to solve: first, that Sofía never agreed with the plan and she is very furious, and second, that the "plan", whose name is Facundo, wants to enter their lives since he has just discovered his unexpected paternity.

Félix is ​​65 years old and tends pigs at a pig farm in the countryside. His wife, Josefina, has gone to the hospital for some tests. Félix suffers an accident that nearly kills him and disrupts his daily routine. He recovers, and when Josefina arrives with devastating news, they must face the problem together.

Ray is a gay teenage fisherman who embarks on a journey to find his mother in the Peruvian jungle, armed with little more than a photo of her in a bar in Iquitos. As he ventures into the unknown, he is forced to confront his motivations for seeking her and the harsh realities of his own life.

The son of a millionaire and his butler are trying to boycott his father's wedding by contracting the services of a fake wedding planner. However, they have to confront the future mother-in-law, who will not be tricked that easily and will do anything to make the wedding a reality.

The documentary follows the preparations and rehearsals of each group, and deepens our knowledge on his motivations and what it means to them to dance Huaylarsh.

This third installment will tell three stories, three inseparable friends, and three reasons to sing and laugh.

Set in 1970 in a desert mining town in northern Chile, Mariola is a 17-year-old known in the town as Mario. Sporadic rains bring bursts of life to the driest place on Earth, and in the midst of this landscape, Mariola gets invited by a theatre company of travestis to travel to Lima, Peru. During the journey, Mariola begins to discover who she has always wanted to be. Upon returning to Chile, a new era of political and social change drives her to affirm their identity.

What happens if you join a discouraged music lover with an exasperated romantic counselor and his hot friend recently arrived from Miami? Or a woman desperate to be a mom with a single father and a failed husband in the middle? Or a woman who just wants to have fun with a man who only thinks about her? The result is a very funny romantic comedy where the characters discover that it is never too late to become Lovers of Love.

Juan, a young man convicted of terrorism, is given amnesty from a Lima prison; he boards a bus to return home and, in his mind's eye, recalls events in his village near Huaraz when he was 10 or 12. His father is long dead, his mother lives with Fermin, secretly a sympathizer with the Communist guerrillas in the hills. Town leaders are assassinated at night. When Juan discovers Fermin's secret, Juan is spirited away to the guerrillas to learn Marxist slogans and how to fight. When the band decides to attack the town to avenge the death of a comrade, Juan must choose.

A portrait of three Peruvian women living in the city of Arequipa: Ilda, Magaly, and Nieves. They all share the experience of having suffered physical and psychological violence within their marriages. They all raise their children alone; they all work under precarious conditions yet with dignity; but above all, they all persevere, they are strong, they resist, and they share their stories with us from the heart of their daily lives.

A shy voyeur attempts to possess, at least visually, a diverse group of Asian women. The film blends pop culture references with everyday footage and culminates in a dark denouement of obsession.

Sofia leads an austere life as a housekeeper, wanting to save every penny to support her grandmother and siblings. A day like any other, she finds herself involved in a crime scene in a hotel room. She's innocent, but her prints are everywhere.

A heterosexual man's deconstruction before the identity of a trans woman at the workplace.

Film shot in Yangas, in the mountains of Lima.

Two lego space cowboys fight for survival. After one of them dies, a mysterious space man walks into the fight, he's riding an Iron Man Space Ship. An Avant-Garde short film.

A trip through the diversity of black and native Peruvian music. Character-driven film, one where the characters are integral to the nation itself. This movie delves into music and musicians, yet it's not strictly a musical; rather, it's a tapestry of seemingly disparate personal narratives woven together in a country also striving to define itself and sketch its identity

Gregorio, a boy from the impoverished countryside of Peru emigrates to Lima, the capital city. Experiencing a cultural shock due to the chaotic nature of the city, he must challenge himself to learn Spanish, since his native tongue is Quechua, and survive in this whole prejudiced new world. A hostile world for poor immigrants.

Ramón, a psychologically unstable university student from Lima, murders his landlords, who constantly demanded the payment of the monthly rent for the hovel in which he lives. From here, remorse and the fear of being arrested will eat you inside.

An abundant fog has engulfed the coastal cove where Agatha lives, preventing her father, a humble fisherman, from returning home. Unable to take care of her, her mother casts her out.

During the COVID-19 lockdown in Lima, Ramón, a gay man in his thirties, receives the ashes of his estranged father. Unable to hold a funeral, he sets out to return the remains to his father’s native village of Mito. Along the way, he meets Mateo, a striking traveler grounded by the pandemic. Despite curfews, masks, and distancing, an unexpected bond forms. They dance, laugh, and grow attuned to each other’s presence, their closeness charged with quiet intimacy and unspoken possibility. As they journey into the Andean highlands, Ramón is drawn not only to Mateo but also to a deeper confrontation with grief, memory, and the hope of healing.

Film by Paco Lorent (Freddy Laurente).

With pencils, brushes, colors, papers and canvases, those who were children during the internal armed conflict that ravaged Peru between 1980 and 2000, draw and paint with their children, forging the collective memory of the years of violence they lived through in their communities, in a story that dispels the fears that held them captive and shares their dreams for the future.

In the small town of Pinchollo in the district of Cabanaconde, province of Caylloma, Arequipa region, there is a water cult similar to the ancient ritual of Qhapaq Qocha.

How far am I willing to go to change myself to please others? To the point where I stop liking myself? Who sets the limits?

In 1968, Peru experienced a popular revolution led by Velasco Alvarado, an initiative spearheaded by progressive military officers who sought to transform the country's social and political structure, moving towards modernization, democracy, and progress for all Peruvians. "The Rebels" reflects this era of change, in which peasants and rural workers in general could finally claim their labor and social rights from landowners who, until then, had acted like medieval tyrants. In this particular case, on a farm in the Cajamarca region, the peasants, encouraged by Velasco Alvarado's popular government, rebel against the abuses of a landowner who wields absolute power over his subordinates.