Discoveries from Peru World Cinema

About rock art in Peru.

It focuses on the basics of cardiovascular prevention and therapy.

Report on blind people in Peru.

Pro Producciones Antara Films EIRL, Dir Marcos Moore Prado.

It focuses on the use of nuclear energy in the fields of medicine, industry, and agriculture.

A profile of the costumbrista painter Pancho Fierro (1808-1879), and his vision of 19th-century Lima.

The education provided at the National Service for Industrial Work Training - SENATI.

CM documentary 35mm Color 10 minutes

Report on the province of Condorcanqui.

Rock art (petroglyphs) in Peru.

It deals with the life and work of the Peruvian scientist Santiago Antúnez de Manolo (1887-1967), a pioneer in the study and projects of hydroelectric and irrigation power plants.

In religious ceremonies, in the absence of a priest, the peasants replace the parish priests.

The daily life of the popular sectors in Lima in the seventies.

The activity of a group of puppeteers in a young town, where they come to present a children's play.

Voice and presence of the visual artist Cristina Gálvez (1916-1982) in front of her work.

Taking advantage of a visit to a famous collection of human bones, the human evolution from ape to man is explained.

A harpist (Pedro Llana) is seen positioning his harp near a waterfall. The narrator's voice says, "We knew that harpists went to the mountains to learn new melodies from the waterfalls." The harpist falls asleep, and some children climb up to steal his harp. The harpist wakes up and throws them off. A priest (Father Fausto Pusa) says that the story of harpists, mermaids, and waterfalls is pure fantasy. [He is referring to the belief that harpists receive help from mermaids in those places to tune their instruments.]

Directed by Vlado Radovich. Produced by Inti Film. Starring Ana Hank, Vlado Radovich, and César Valer. Voice of Jesús Vásquez. Short film based on the waltz of the same name by Felipe Pinglo Alva.

Documentary. Produced, in color, by Movius Films.

Documentary. Directed by Manuel Trullen. Produced by Peru Films (Roberto Cruzalegui, Carlos Venine).

It includes: the classic Jockey Club; volleyball match between the Sacred Hearts School and the combined High School of Lima and Callao; social party aboard the Admiral Grau; visit of the Minister of the Navy to the Real Felipe construction site; football matches.

Alberto Santana's first film directed in Peru followed the deep-rooted tradition of imitating the style of Charles Chaplin's comedy. Sporting a mustache and bowler hat, the Mexican dancer and bullfighter Rodolfo Areu played the lead role. Areu, who performed variety acts with Julián Santa Cruz's Cuban revue and comedy company, offered as the central attraction of his show what appeared to be an impeccable imitation of Charlie Chaplin. The surviving accounts agree that, like Chaplin, it was a kind of unacknowledged remake of The Kid (1921), and that the liveliness of Areu's pantomime was the film's main attraction.

Cinema Theater Company. Filmed by Jorge Goitizolo.

Fans of the fashionable dance, the rhythmic tango, are delighted, for they will be able to admire today very interesting poses to the rhythm of the music of El choclo and El otario, which will be performed by the maestro Pellicciani, accompanying the film with the same music that was played when it was taken.

Filmed by Jorge Goitizolo, in La Paz, on August 6, 1912, commissioned by the Cine Teatro Company.

The film earned the public's approval. It surpasses all praise. To this day, no other national film has displayed greater perfection, greater clarity, or greater richness of detail.

It is a film of a journey on the Central Railway from Callao to the regions of Chanchamayo, Huancayo, Perené, and Mantaro. It is shown in five parts, with a total length of 3,000 feet. It is reported that the film, with a total duration of two hours, “will be sent to England as an illustrative report for our country.”

Andrew and Betty were a very happy college couple, but due to unforeseen circumstances, Andrew had to travel without first making a promise of love to his beloved Betty. Both his college classmates and his uncle, Agent Dennis Morgan, disapproved of their relationship. Two years passed, and upon Andrew's return, things became complicated, as his beloved Betty was with a new partner, thus triggering the cruelest and most merciless revenge against all those who had interfered in their relationship.

Kevin Carbonell turns Lucha Fuentes' life into a documentary to prove that her figure is legendary.

During the years of terrorist violence, a National Police squad undertook the perilous mission of disarming the explosives planted throughout the country by Shining Path and the MRTA. The documentary "With My Soul in Suspense" tells the human stories of the veterans who risked their lives for society, though some heroically perished in their mission. The press focused on the attacks that occurred, but not so much on those that were prevented. The documentary centers on the latter, through heroic stories recounted by the protagonists themselves, stories that will leave the viewer breathless.

A man receives an unexpected gift that will be the first step in fulfilling a promise.

An experimental manifesto made with archival material from various films about wild humans, reflecting on the human condition and our animal origins.

It is a ritual battle that takes place year after year in the location of the same name. It is known that many similar battles existed in different parts of the southern Andes; their ritualistic content has a strong basis in reality, and their antiquity is lost in the mists of time.

Miguel has a congenital heart defect and is his father's spoiled son. To cope with this overprotection, Miguel turns to alcoholism and drug addiction, two habits that bring him to the brink of death.

Independent experimental feature film. It consists of three integrated chapters, each 30 minutes long: Delirium, La Vibi, and Mortis.

Juan plays the mandolin in a band. It's a celebration for the city's carnival. Afterward, he says goodbye to an ex-girlfriend for whom he still feels desire and attraction. Disappointed that he can't win her back, Juan gets drunk with his other musician friend. Since his mandolin is a bit out of tune, they go to the beach, following the local legend of a mermaid who would fix his instrument. They leave it on the shore and sit down to wait. The young men fall asleep, but when Juan wakes up, his friend discovers that he has gone into the sea. In the distance, he sees an intense light swallow him up, and he disappears. The next day, they recover his body. His friend cries out in despair, "She took him... the mermaid took him!"

The story is about Gregorio, a young man of humble origins who steals from his father, Don Rufino, to buy liquor. Gregorio is violent, unwilling to work, and constantly lies. He becomes depressed when he remembers his deceased mother and feels unsupported by his father, who is always scolding him. Driven by jealousy, Gregorio kills his girlfriend in the countryside simply for talking to another young man who was courting her. He flees in terror and seeks refuge at a village festival, gets drunk, and tries to seduce a girl who rejects him. The tormented spirit of his girlfriend haunts him, and he hides in his house.

Police action feature film, inspired by another film by Héctor Marreros, “Trueque en los Andes”, a Peru-Ecuador co-production, based on real events, about drug trafficking in the Cajamarca region (Peru).

Report on the skull deformation technique used by the Paracas culture.

Festival of the Virgin Mary, Mamacha Cocharcas, in the province of Sapallanga-Junín.

It shows the daily journey of a girl, on foot and by boat, her contact with nature, and some gift that the Tambopata River offers her.

This documentary showcases the woodcut work of the artist José Sabogal (1888-1956), who started the Indigenist School of Peru.

Short film.

This documentary was censored by COPROCI (the Film Promotion Commission) of Juan Velasco's government, which argued that it presented a savage view of peasants reenacting a ritual battle to maintain the fertility of the land in the Chiaraje plains (4,700 meters above sea level), in the province of Canas. The production company, without the filmmaker's permission, converted the film into a series of short films; however, a 35mm copy still exists.

Documentary record of the citadel of Machu Picchu.

Short film.

An elderly Asháninka shaman recounts part of his people's history and customs, which are not included in the official education the state provides to the Asháninka. A mestizo girl studying at the state school in Poyeni receives an education that makes this divide obvious. Sent to her godmother's house in the city of Satipo to learn Spanish and receive "a better education," she experiences nothing but mistreatment and runs away, seeking to return home. Along the way, she discovers the richness of her maternal culture, highlighting the need for an education that values ​​her and helps her survive.

Assembly and printing of a newspaper.

Semana Santa celebrations

Xhizito: Twisted Reflections is a work of journalistic autofiction that blends investigative depth with a fantastical veil of anonymity. At its core, Xhizito is not a character or a place—it’s a sound, a rhythm, a word charged with plastic identity and fluid meaning. Its phonetic expressiveness evokes ambiguity, twisting itself into something elusive and serpentine. But what, exactly, is Xhizito? In this first chapter of a larger enigma, we delve into the heart of a phenomenon that resists definition, seeking answers in echoes, masks, and mirrors.

On his wedding day, Diego locks himself in the sacristy, unable to marry Elmira. A visit from Salva will give him the courage he needs to be able to continue with what he “must do”.

Official music video for the song "Nueva Primavera" from Mateu Aisa Unda's album "Demos De Amor"