Discoveries from Peru World Cinema

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Second part of the short film Facundo.

Los Nuevos was the only feature film directed by Paul Delfín. It was based on a story by the writer and journalist Edgardo Pérez Llina, who published articles on cinema in the Lima newspaper Correo with some consistency during the 1960s. Los Nuevos aimed to offer a chronicle of youthful anxieties at the beginning of the 1970s. All the topics of sexual awakening and "political commitment," of generational rebellion, protest against the "system," and the general "dissent" as the order of the day, were reviewed in an erratic plot, filmed in imperfect black and white.

Short animated film.

Cartoon showing the organization of the trade balance.

The providential recovery of this video, believed lost for decades, is a key piece in the imagined reconstruction of the Third Biennial, inaugurated on November 20, 1987, in Trujillo, in northern Peru. It was an unusual project, unexpectedly embraced by that traditional provincial city, which was then struggling to find its place on some contemporary cultural map. This occurred precisely when that very category was faltering, and on the fringes of a society increasingly fragmented—also from the international community—by economic mismanagement and political violence, and by the missteps of ideology.

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Documentary about the life and work of Felipe Pinglo Alva, the father of Creole music.

This is a stop-motion animation created from 5,000 meticulously crafted drawings, developed over several years, in which humans, animals, and mythological creatures are constantly transforming. Influenced by Eastern mysticism, this animation is the result of a reflection on the concept of Yin and Yang duality, which posits that all things possess opposing characteristics originating from the same core and are therefore inseparable.

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A tour that accompanies the artist Carlos Delfín

Portrait of the master craftsman Joaquín López Antay (1897-1981), who at the time of filming was 80 years old and was still producing his altarpieces.

The Virgin of Candelaria is associated with Pachamama, or Mother Earth, Lake Titicaca, mines, and lightning. An impressive variety of dances are performed during the first two weeks of February. The festival takes place within the context of carnivals, the rainy season, ritual competitions, and courtship.

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Documentary about the construction of houses with mud and bamboo in Piura and its history since its use by the Tallanes, ancient pre-Hispanic inhabitants of the region.

Victoria Savio came to Peru from Italy to work for the rights of organized domestic workers. Victoria stayed in Peru and continued her life's mission in Cusco, founding Yanapanakusun, a house that promotes the holistic development of domestic workers in Cusco. Victoria's birthday is approaching, and the young workers at Yanapanakusun want to celebrate their Mamacha Victoria.

Holy Week in the community of Porcón de Cajamarca is one of the manifestations that reflect the religious syncretism and magic inherent to the Andean being.

This documentary about Quyllurrit'i, the grandest and most important festival in the Andean world in Cusco, shows how various communities come together to celebrate this festival. It is the first time this festival has been filmed.

Years have passed. Lori Berenson with the necessary distance that passage of time gives, she makes a thoughtful and serene judgment of her participation in MRTA and of her passage through different peruvian prisons and now current condition of mother.

A young man from Lima arrives as a tourist in a town in Huaraz. His intention is to climb the Alpamayo mountain. The community is shaken by violence, both from terrorism and its repressive aftermath. As a way of explaining this difficult situation, the inhabitants of the place appeal to their myths, one of which is that of the pisbacos, white men who extract human fat to exploit it outside the country. These mythological killers seek to take the vital and cultural wealth of the Andes to the big city. After being pursued, the truth is revealed and the young man learns to respect the way of life and the culture of the Andean environment.

Documentary.

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Rehearsals by the Goethe group from Arequipa, preparing a baroque music concert in a church in the white city.

A view of the old Lima cemetery shows workers at their jobs and visitors venerating the graves of their loved ones.

Biopic about the life of Jose Carlos Mariategui.

Documentary.

Documentary.

A group of young people seek alternative ways of life in a city submerged in chaos.

Resentment can reach absurd and malevolent extremes. For failing to keep a promise to her son, a mother is humiliated and wounded in her dignity by him. But the sinister and unhealthy presence of certain beings from the invisible realm of dreams will subject the son to a conversion.

Short film based on the short story by Juan Carlos Onetti

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The ancient Inca stone citadel of Machu Picchu is home to a great variety of flowers; in orchids alone, there are several dozen species.

It addresses the topic of old age based on interviews with elderly people who talk about their lives, their memories, and their attitude towards death from the nursing home that houses them.

A documentary by Armando Robles Godoy.

Short film by Ramiro Velapatiño included in the DVD Días De Huanta.

A family portrait from the perspective of Doris, wife of the Huanta composer Víctor Raúl López Tello, in which she emotionally narrates through memories, photographs and home videos the experience and happy moments she shared with her husband, who in life composed the iconic song "Goodbye town of Huanta" where he expresses the enormous affection and nostalgia for the land where he lived the greatest moments of his life.

From Chiclayo, Peru, to the Holy See in the Vatican, this documentary reveals the personal and human side of Pope Leo XIV through testimonies gathered in Chiclayo, Lambayeque, Pimentel, La Victoria, Chulucanas (Piura), Rome, and even the Vatican itself.

Julia, a new mother, is drowning in a sea of milk, overwhelmed by insecurities, fears and social pressure. In her attempt to escape, she discovers that peace comes when she stops fighting her own fears.

A multilayered reflection unfolds when a filmmaker asks herself: how filmmaking and photography arrived in the Island of the Moon in Titikaka Lake? After migrating to Germany, she encounters herself with images that she shot in that territory and the relationship in between mining exploitation and image making open up associations that trespasses a linear time.

In a remote village between mountains and the Jordan River, near a district called Jerusalem, everyday life appears to unfold in deceptive calm.

Carlos Obregón (César Marticorena) is investigating the case of Ariana Montalbán’s disappearance. After an exhaustive review of the recordings and clues in his possession, the true culprit is revealed, along with their plan.

Los rocotos florecerán shows the daily life of farmers in the province of Carabaya, revealing from within the tensions of community organization and collective leadership.

Román Zegarra, amateur boxer, is rejected by a gym when it is discovered that he has never fought in La Mugre, the underground fighting event where all the men in the city compete. Pressured by his friends and by his family’s financial needs, Román agrees to fight in this brutal event. To do so, he recruits El Puma, a former wrestler who takes him to the tournament. In his first fight, Román ends up beating his opponent to death, becoming trapped between the horror of what he has done and the roar of the crowd chanting his name.

Take a sip of a mystical beverage and plunge into a digital rabbit hole. This VR musical takes you on a journey where traditional Peruvian rituals merge with the virtual world. As the magical elixir begins to take effect, your surroundings gradually dissolve—a tepee transforms into a huaca (a place of worship dedicated to the gods of Andean culture), and then turns into sacred ancestral sites.

Date: Monday, August 18, 2036: After the eruption of the Mt. Erasmus super volcano in Holland, most of western Europe has been rendered uninhabitable. I am one of the lucky ones who has been given the opportunity to race the lava to the Pacific ocean on the Daorklis 2, the only train still running to the far east.

Valentino wanders through the city like an apparition, ensnared in the liminal space between nostalgia and departure. His camera fragments reality into vestiges of a nation that still lays claim to him. Spaces where memory murmurs unfulfilled promises. In a discourse that transcends mere conversation, words entwine with eloquent silences and in that fleeting exchange, the inevitable emerges: farewells foretold, inscribed before they are ever uttered.

A boy questions the state of his reality when he believes he is in a 5-shot video.