Discoveries from Peru World Cinema

This cathartic experiment is an account of the failures and massacres that have occurred under the current government.

In the quiet of my room, I face a difficult night. Through a conversation with myself, I discover the value of being sensitive and seeing myself with compassion, tenderness and love

Traveling by bus is one of the most drastic, strong and powerful sensations of reality. It is one of the moments where you are too conscious of life. Sometimes, there is music and it is more bearable. Other times, there isn't; and you feel a strange emptiness, a strange pain. You want to get down, you want to get there, you want to run away. And in that, you appear.

A young man experiences traumatic revelations from his past in his sleep, prompting him to launch an investigation to uncover the truth. As he gets closer to a crucial clue, an unexpected event forces him out of his home, setting him on a path to confront his destiny

On a typical work day, Oscar, a hotel receptionist, decides to plan his “revenge” against a guest. Fiction will be his weapon.

Approach to the life and work of the Italian scientist, scholar of the geography of Peru, Don Antonio Raimondi (1824 - 1890)

Documentary about Patricia Bellatin's life, her fight for the environment and sexual freedom rights

A warm and human portrait of Victor Churay and is narrated in the artist's own voice. The film traces the artist's personal and family history. Most of the documentary is filmed in natural settings of his Pucaurquillo

In some remote areas of the Peruvian Andes, such as the highland hamlet of Chugurpampa, traditional healers have all but disappeared. This is due largely to an unstable subsistence economy brought on by climate change, forcing frequent trips and even permanent out migration to the coast, with the result that young people are not able to devote the time to learn the healing arts. Yet, due to the rigors of peasant life, there is still a high demand for the musculoskeletal healing tradition of bonesetting.

A set of memories, a series of readings. After two hundred years as an independent nation, Peru has many forgotten struggles in different territories and from different times. Marking the country’s bicentennial anniversary, this super 8mm film brings together activists and families in a compilation of speeches from history’s B-side. A beautiful, stirring expression of liveness, agency, resistance, and the intergenerational obligation to renew and refresh our communal commitment to rights and democracy.

César Calvo was one of the great contemporary Peruvian poets belonging to the Generation of the 60s. His dazzling and moving, refined and musical poetry; profiled him as a character who over the years has become a legend.

In 1958, Robert Gottlieb was forced to renounce his Romanian citizenship in order to migrate to Israel. 50 years later, his daughter Yaela (re)builds that route but her father’s story does not match the places she knew. Family mandates and ghosts of the past get materialized. Him from Lima and her from Buenos Aires, for the first time, find an undeniable gap that leads her towonder: who her father is

For a man, solving mental exercises, writing a letter, focusing on something, avoiding being disturbed by the fragility of the body or getting ready to spend time with his son are some of the many issues that present themselves as a clear impossibility.

Roger is forced by his mother to take care of his Nonno, Augusto, who suffers from senile dementia. Nonno's childish behavior, full of nonsense and occurrences, will put Roger through a desperate situation until his family returns.

It focuses on the technological advances made in the field of satellite and microwave communications.

Historical vision of the city of Tacna, the fiftieth anniversary of its reincorporation, highlighting the patriotism of its people in the war with Chile (1879-1884), and during the captivity in the power of the neighboring country.

A Quechua and Christian peasant festival in the town of Ocongate, featuring purification in the snows of Mount Ausangate and before a crucifix. The film is spoken in Quechua and Spanish.

Restoration of colonial mansions in the cities of Arequipa and Trujillo.

Environment and customs of the Asháninka natives commonly called Campas.

Capture, homage and release of the condor in a ritual of Andean peasants, who consider this gigantic and majestic bird as a deity.

Life of a goat herder in the face of the city's advance into the countryside.

The potential of the inland regions and their need for communication routes.

Use of wastewater for agriculture and environmental health.

Report on the traditions of the Puno department.

A family of Peruvian Paso horses speaks and tells us their story from their arrival in Peru from Spain and their adaptation to the lands of northern Peru.

The sun tells the story of the town of Ayacucho as an important setting in events in Peru.

Dangers of environmental pollution and alternatives to the oxidation ponds of San Juan de Miraflores.

Life of the sea lions of the Ballestas Islands in Paracas Bay.

Corporate documentary that shows the activities of Papelera Paramonga to the rhythm of Jazz.

This documentary features Brother Aurelio, a Redemptorist religious who is in charge of making altar wine at the San Francisco de Paula Convent in Rimac, Lima.

Uruguayan filmmakers in exile document aspects of social reality in Peru. The town of Mariscal Cáceres, which its inhabitants call La Mejorada, is left without a road due to a landslide. Now, they can only sell their products when the train passes by. Thus, time begins to be dictated by the arrival and departure of the train cars.

A child spies on a couple's amorous games.

Exploitation of the timber wealth of the Peruvian jungle and recommendations for reforestation.

Report on the traditions of the Puno department.

Construction of the Majes irrigation project in Arequipa and its significance in the expansion of the agricultural frontier.

Pro Ernesto Sprinckmoller Olazábal, Dir Ernesto Sprinckmoller, Pej G Ernesto Sprinckmoller, Cam Ed Juan Antonio Caycho, Lab Alex (Argentina).

Over 100 years ago, 300 Germans from the Tyrol region (Germany) arrived in the Peruvian jungle and founded the colony of El Pozuzo; this is a report on their descendants.

About a painting workshop with children aged 7 to 12 who create artwork inspired by the sea and sand.

Overview of the life and work of Pedro Ruiz Gallo (1838-1880) and Pedro Paulet (1874-1945) related to aviation and aerospace navigation.

A journey through Peruvian fauna, from prehistoric animals whose fossils are found in museums to the current fauna that inhabits the different regions of the country.

Capture and martyrdom of the Chorrillos hero José Olaya (1789-1923), in support of the fight for the independence of Peru.

Picture Holdings, Co., 1931

Explanation of the making of reed boats, a pre-Columbian form of navigation and fishing that survives on northern beaches such as Huanchaco and others.

Encouragement to develop children's athletics linked to education.

International motocross championship in Manchay – Lima.

Report on the state-owned company Hierro Perú.

CM documentary 35mm Color 10 minutes.

A report on the life and work of the painter Teodoro Núñez Ureta (1912-1988). The artist is seen creating a watercolor in the Arequipa countryside and in a Lima market.

Life and work of the poet Luis Valle Goycochea (1908-1953), born in the town of La Soledad, department of La Libertad.

The making and sailing of boats made with totora straw; a craft created by the Mochica people and still practiced today on Huanchaco beach.

The importance of conserving the vicuña in its natural habitat does not prevent the use of its wool, unique in the world.

About the construction and laying of the railway line from Lima to Junín, transporting minerals and passengers, a journey that climbs through precipices and tunnels in the Andean mountains.

Continuation of the construction of the large pipeline to transport oil extracted from the Amazon rainforest to the Pacific coast.

Using sequences taken from old newsreels, the glorious sporting afternoons of footballer Teodoro Lolo Fernández (1913-1996) are remembered.

From the Ancient Cultures of Peru series.

From the Ancient Cultures of Peru series.