Discoveries from Peru World Cinema

Documentary about a day in the life of a worker who works in a glass blowing factory. It was spread in film universities in Brazil.

The community of Maras in Cusco extracts natural salt from a complex of pools. According to legend, the salt flat was formed by the tears of the Inca Ayar Cachi who was buried by his brothers before he came to found Cusco.

In a corner of the Amazon, a tree-cutting ant runs into a cicada capable of making nature grow with its music. Their friendship is threatened when a fire breaks out in the middle of the jungle.

The manifesto of a body that bleeds by nature, the reconnection with the ancestors and the self-portrayed voice of a woman who seeks to break with the oppression that has forced us to experience menstruation with fear, shame and rejection.

This is the story of Mr. Rafael Castrillon, a master toymaker with more than fifty years of experience and a former Mr. Peru in bodybuilding. His story is a one-way ticket towards the manufacture of the traditional (incomplete) wooden toy.

After 26 years of the massacre in Naylamp de Sonomoro, the authorities of Peru carry out the exhumation of the mass grave, this fact will revive the most tragic memory of the relatives and survivors of the central Peruvian jungle, who despite the misfortune that they passed, today they live again, leaving the past behind.

This documentary portrays the life stories of some of the finalist candidates for the oldest trans beauty contest in Latin America. In it we see how they transform, not only their bodies, but also their vision of themselves, involving learning processes, discovery, evaluation and (re) affirmation of their gender identities and the image they want to project through their bodies.

It tells the story of a folk band from this town, whose members, all born and raised in Aijá and still living there, come together to play for the town where they were born. They are the ones who guide us through the town's cobblestone streets and cultivated fields, revealing a community nestled in the mountains that is disappearing.

A portrait about the jazz musician Joao Aragao.

Rosa and Samuel had lost their way in life and were homeless. Then Nydia, the leader of a group of people forgotten by society, took them in at a ruined place overlooking the sea. Samuel discovered a fetus, which Rosa adopted. However, the arrival of Marcos spread news of an impending doomsday, plunging the entire group into fear and superstition.

A young child prepares himself to defeat his worst enemy.

The review and study of the pictorial work of José Sabogal (1888-1956), father of Peruvian Indigenism, continues.

The renowned Mexican tenor Nicolás Urcelay Alonzo (1919-1959) performed at the Radio El Sol Auditorium. In addition to his vocal talent and his appearances in several films (Deseada and El puerto de los siete vicios, both from 1951), Urcelay was highly regarded by the Peruvian public for being the first to introduce the waltz "La flor de la canela" by the Peruvian composer María Isabel Granda y Larco ("Chabuca Granda") to Mexico. The article also mentions his meeting with fans at the Fleischmann Department Store, the event's sponsor. Noticiero Perú (No. 11, Spring 1955)

Report on the irrigation project of the pampas of La Joya.

In October 1955, the short film The King Eats Like a King, made for the food manufacturing company Nicolini S.A., gained notoriety.

Documentary by Enrico Grass. Produced by Franklin Urteaga Cazorla.

Documentary about the biography of the Peruvian political leader Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre.

Filming took place between January and March of 1952 in Cusco and the cloud forest under the direction of American Ken Krippene and the photographic supervision of German Hans Helzig. The film was never released due to technical deficiencies that made its exhibition impossible. The filming of this movie gave rise to a story that fascinated Lima's journalists in the 1950s: the romance between John Wayne—who had come to the country in search of locations for a personal project—and the star of Lila Tihi's Emeralds, Peruvian Pilar Pallete, which culminated in marriage.

Probably by Alberto Santana.

Homeland Film. Filmed by Alberto Santana.

A remarkable and highly topical national production featuring a select group of Lima beauties, wearing the traditional mantilla during Holy Week, which has triumphed in the El Comercio poll. […] During the screening, the orchestra conducted by Paco González performs the pasacalle by Carlos Raygada, "Ole la mantilla," with lyrics by the poet José Ruette García, who wrote the film's captions.

Filmed by engineer Eduardo López de Romaña.

It contains views of temples in Lima and of the arrival of the car race organized by the Touring Club.

It contains: exotic dances in the interior of Bolivia; picturesque costumes and strange insignia; the Sicuri and Pusi-huscu dances.

Those who for some reason were unable to witness the brilliant tribute paid to the national aviator Juan Bielovucic can now contemplate it from a seat in the Olimpo Theater. The theater was packed, and the clear film, whose length of more than five hundred meters depicts in its smallest details Bielovucic's disembarkation in Callao, his arrival at the Desamparados Station, the journey along Jirón de la Unión, and the parade in front of his home on Avenida de La Colmena, was enthusiastically applauded. This film, like the previous ones premiered in this theater, was developed by the well-known photographer Mr. Lund, and is undoubtedly one of the best, since the minor defects noticeable in the previous films, which were only apparent to experts in the art of photography, have completely disappeared in this one.

Former high school classmates return home 21 years later. The occasion is fraught with secrets, both good and bad memories. Each guest carries a hidden truth: some romantic, some tragic, and some dangerous. Caught between rekindled love and growing nostalgia, events unfold.

SamPuta is a psychological drama that explores guilt, addiction, and loss through the eyes of Sam, a young man who flees Peru after a tragic accident. In Buenos Aires, he tries to rebuild his life, but loneliness and memories plunge him into a spiral of drugs and empty encounters. The appearance of Tano—an ambiguous figure, part lover, part conscience, and part ghost—confronts him with what he fears most: his own truth.

During a school trip to the museum, three friends embark on a fantastic adventure in which they must protect a precious mineral from the clutches of an evil sorcerer determined to conquer the world. Thus begins an immersive cinematic experience that not only entertains but also plunges the viewer into an interactive and exciting journey.

Lima, Monday, March 14, 1994 (Peru, 63 min, 2023). A family archive is infected or disinfected by the inclusion of newspaper articles from the same day the archive was recorded.

Filmed in Canta, the director's third feature film was presented in Carabayllo.

Documentary about marine conservation, produced by Oceana Peru.

A woman embarks on a journey to Paucartambo, the town where her family belongs. Amidst the preparations for the patron saint's festival, she meets a dancer who reveals to her the origin of his faith.

Focusing on a personal and intimate drama, the film tells the story of Esteban who returns to our country with his Spanish girlfriend to get married, but his friends (from his school days) have a big surprise prepared for him at his bachelor party: a date with the beautiful prostitute Maria.

A young farmer named Alex (Franchesco Ortiz Segovia, pictured right) works in the fields carrying logs. He then heads home and finds his mother ill, coughing a lot. She asks him to go to their neighbor's house to get her some medicine. He replies that he'll look for work on a farm because a friend has promised to help him and that he'll come back for her later so she can get better. Alex leaves sadly. The woman goes to her neighbor's house to get some medicine. The neighbor gives her a liquid to drink, made from boiled medicinal plants.

A tour of the geographical landscape aspects of the Urubamba Valley, a mythical space where the Inca culture developed.

In a city unknown to me, Cajamarca, I find a group of actors who allow me into their private lives. Without needing words.

Our minds seek associations. It's an interesting game, one we can play more often. And it's not smart to believe there's only one way to make movies.

In the external images, the director sees his own internal images, memories, desires, dreams, thoughts. Each shot is a film, or a new beginning, or the end, or the middle, or a story, or a fragment of one, or simply a pure image that reveals and holds its secret.

A short film by Rafael Arevalo.

A pair of young students make a report on subliminal messages by mixing their own material with mysterious recordings of other people to try to find a way to counteract them.

After the third world war, only 1% of the population will survive. Most will have become mutants, but a few humans will be immune to everything.

The search for essence, the burden of waste, and the daily struggle to remain free from foreign influences. The body as the only home.

The creative process of Mirella Carbone in three contemporary dance-theater works: "Broken Plates", "Fifth Station" and "Pasodoble".

Folklore is the study of the traditions, customs, and beliefs of a population, which are maintained and transmitted through inheritance. We say that folklore is inherent to and belongs to the group that creates it. Generally speaking, it is a form of language, a way of saying, "This is who I am, this is what I believe, and this is what I think." The documentary attempts to summarize our understanding of folklore. Folklore, being a symbolic language, allows us to "read" what people want, seek, and dream of; sometimes these are goals that cannot be achieved due to the level of oppression in which we live. Therefore, by expressing themselves in this way, they are sublimating these frustrated desires, transforming them into a "utopia," something we will never attain.

A documentary by Cesar Vivanco.

A film that portrays the life and work of the renowned folk artist Guillermo Salazar Pajares, a key figure in the festive culture of Cajamarca. It seeks to rescue and value the legacy of a figure who has remained on stage for more than 50 years, promoting folk art and the Cajamarca carnival.

Based on the testimony of Hector Vargas.

The police seizure of a drug shipment unleashes a terrible struggle for survival in a town subjected to the abuses of power and drug traffickers.

The work of the visual artist Félix Oliva based on his own testimony.

Lucho's documentary project seeks to recount the intercultural adventure of Sonidos Vivos, the experiences of the Peruvian musician on his mission to share his country's music with people from other parts of the world, in a distant and unfamiliar land. The documentary also aims to tell the life stories of the participating musicians, almost all of whom are marked by displacement and fleeing their home countries for a new and better life in Canada.

The Inca solstice festival commemorated by the people of Cusco today.

The transfer of the Cerro de Pasco Mining Corporation to Hierro Perú.

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