Discoveries from Peru World Cinema

a journey to the mythical tomb of Karl Marx

El consejo de los tres/Council of Three: Dziga Vertov, Yelizaveta Svilova, Mikhail Kaufman /// 1) "Consignas elementales" [1926] (pp. 222-3), 2) "Nosotros: Variante del manifiesto" [1922] (pp. 171-174), y 3) "1924" (pp. 53-54) —del libro Memorias de un cineasta bolchevique (Capitán Swing Libros, 2011). /// 1) "Very Simple Slogans" [1926] (p.71), 2) "WE: Variant of a Manifesto" [1922] (pp.5-9), and 3) "1924" (pp.161-2) —from the book Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov (University of California Press, 1984).

Leo must film a short film. In trying to find a clear direction for his subject, he will be drawn into a series of experiences that will help him broaden his perspective and deepen his creative vision

Surrounded by a traditionalist environment that complicates the free expression of love between women, Adela, a young sailor dancer, will discover if she really wants to hide who she is and who she loves.

Documentary on the Amazonian sorcerer Ino Moxo

After suffering a personal tragedy, a young man begins to discover an uncomfortable truth: now that he has lost everything, he has truly become free.

A letter, a poem and a farewell become intertwined in a journey full of memories. A collection of poems by the Peruvian poet Blanca Varela is the starting point for a beautiful cinematic letter about the traces of absence and the restrained emotions in what seems to be an unfinished love story.

The experiences of a God in a forest suffering from deforestation.

After an unexpected discovery, Axel, a medical student passionate about cinema, will do everything possible to strengthen his relationship with his father.

A puppy cat is adopted by an Andean family, while growing up she is treated with tenderness and love

Maribel tries to rescue a jaguar trapped in a restaurant. Although her grandfather could transform into this sacred feline, it is the first time she will see it up close. As a young mother of the indigenous Bora people, she struggles to preserve her culture and the jungle of her village while facing internal contradictions of her community that lives from tourism.

There are many types of inheritance; but Mercedes and Maribel are clear about which one is the most valuable. Their stories seem to repeat themselves like echoes of an ironic reality; However, circumstances have not changed their optimistic vision, which has allowed them to see beyond material inheritances.

In a dystopian future where everything is deforested and polluted, there is a village where Yatsi lives, a girl who survives with her grandfather in the middle of the Amazon. One day something breaks in him and Yatsi will have to go in search of a mysterious fruit that could save him. She will journey through a toxic river, but on the way, she will meet river beings who pursue her. Yatsi will have to rely on the symbols of her dreams to reach her destination.

This is a filming for television in the 1960s, a gala program that could be heard and seen on television where the great Peruvian tenor, triumphant in the lyrical world, at Christmas, was heard in the Ave María of Franz Peter Schubert, the aria from The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti, a furtive tear, Silent Night, Night of Love with the national choir and under the direction of the great conductor Leopoldo La Rosa.

Visit to the zoo “Parque de Las Leyendas” where the voice-over of the veterinarian in charge of the park gives explanations of the care and attention of the animals.

The work of one of the first Peruvian women painters and the most prolific and vigorous writer of children’s literature is appreciated. During his life he published more than one hundred children’s stories and ten books. In addition to teaching, journalism and her work as an artist, she obtained numerous awards as a poet, musical composer and playwright.

A 99-year-old woman recounts her memories of the family that abandoned her when the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso took control of her town, forcing her to sell her dreams as stories to fulfill the promise that would reunite them on her hundredth birthday.

After a hard day of work, Lorenzo manages to arrive in time to take the last train to Chiclayo, his hometown. While waiting for the train, he meets a man who is waiting for his son. They both see in each other a strange familiarity that allows them to open their souls and imitate real life, to try to heal their wounds by saying things they should have said a long time ago, but perhaps never will. Guilt, resentment and love haunt their thoughts, even when they thought they had already overcome them.

When an alleged business meeting turns into an intimate revelation. Paul will deal with believing if the relationship with his partner was real or not.

After a surprising global catastrophe, the last surviving human being searches for meaning in his life.

In the video performance, there is the act of placing the political body, that of the urban citizen, at the center of a mythical construction of transformation. An approach to the powerful biodiversity of the Amazon and a denunciation of its contamination and mutilation, but still capable of absorbing “evil” and healing.

Olinda Silvano, mother, artist and Shipibo leader of the community of Cantagallo travels to her community Paouyhan by the Ucayali River to visit and visit their traditions and customs. She will spend a few days remembering her knowledge before returning to her work in the city representing the Shipibo people with her art of the Kene.

The short documentary chronicles the life of “Mayumi”, an emblematic fisherman from the port of Ancón, north of Lima, one year after his work and routine were affected by the Repsol oil spill off the Peruvian coast.

Aracely, a cheerful young woman, faces an incident that awakens painful memories. As he struggles with his past, he must make a decision that will change his life.

In a desolate world, Alberto, a recycler, finds a bitten hamburger and transforms it into his birthday gift, longing for a different destiny.

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Silent film portraying daily life in Jiron de la Union, Lima, Peru.

Iluminados documents the events that occurred in November 2023 after Universitario became national champion of the Peruvian first division against its classic historical rival Alianza Lima, through a series of interviews with the players and technical command of the merengue club since obtaining the title of the Clausura Tournament that allowed them to access the final until the scandalous turning off of the lights at the Alejandro Villanueva stadium to avoid the rival team's celebrations, an event that shocked and caused repercussions in the international media.

A film about heritage and history, an ancient Incan city, and the life of a person who calls it home.

In the community of Chacán, a group of people say goodbye to one of their own

The visual work of Cinco seis veinte responds to a training of bodies. Specifically a visual entertainment of a generative model of images with artificial intelligence. The human body is re-imagined by an algorithm, fueled by a mix of digitized fragments from radiographs, tomographies, electronic boards, wraps and cables. The result is a journey into the formation and at the same time dissection of this new organism, as if it imploded into thousands of pieces, being able to visualize segments or frames of the hybrid nature of its constitution.

Vania ends her relationship with Jorge

Through archive material and an intimate conversation between mother and daughter, the filmmaker immerses herself in memory to understand and rebuild her identity, based on the story she shares with her mother.

After a strange call, Rafael, a boy who lives in the peruvian 90s, wants to discover the truth about his family despite his parents' strange behavior.

Shortfilm directed by Aldo Salvini

A young social media, photography and video enthusiast visits abandoned railroad tracks

Mary's fictitious experiment consists of putting a person locked in a room where there are no colors. colors do not exist. She can only see in black and white. When she sees red for the first time, will she learn anything new?

Upon waking up, Eva realizes that she is the only person in the world. After surviving several days, she decides whether to die or hope to find someone.

Salivayku is a conversation that seeks to be sensory from my own garden, playing with body images, landscapes of the Pucallpa jungle and insect sounds that are like an electric charge that animates these beings

A Peruvian paleontologist is invited to a conference in Buenos Aires and expects it to be a short and peaceful stay. However, the lacerating heat of the city and a woman who, it seems, suffers from similar ailments to his, make his visit a suffocating and painful review of his existence.

Percy is a young gang member who helps his father pay off his debt to the gang boss. One day, he wants to leave the group, but his boss prevents him because he must first pay the debt. To pay it off in full, Percy must kill for the first time.

A father is suspicious of his son's friendship with his son's friend.

A critical account is given of the two stages of the military government of the seventies: Between General Velasco Alvarado and General Morales Bermudez. Based on photographic, graphic, journalistic, radio and audiovisual records

Fiorella is a person with Down syndrome. Between the everyday and the different she has found all the pieces to be special. Together with her family, she has learned to battle the days, and even though many have passed, she has been able to live them with the same happiness with which she smiles.

A 27-year-old young man wakes up one morning with the heavy task of having to register his father's death in public records. To his surprise, he discovers that the process is much more cumbersome than he had anticipated.

Silvia, a young Peruvian woman, finds herself in a world that seems strange, distant even. She feels she doesn't belong. It's always been like this. But in front of a protest against sexual minorities, she is going to find out, even if the tide is stronger than her, she is not alone. A meaningful and queer student short weighing in on the values of tolerance.

After her death, a father will do everything he can to bring her daughter back.

Three friends plunge into the jungle in search of new species of animals, however they soon realize that they are not alone.

A multi-vocal triptych through peripheral sites of urban infrastructure: a data center, a ring road, and a run-down mall. All three sites were built with certain worldviews: visions of the future and US-influenced promises of progress that didn't turn out to be the utopias they presented themselves as. Through multi-lingual texts, a site-specific soundtrack, 16mm and 3D images, the spaces and their implications are subjectively mapped, poeticized and questioned. A poetic materialism of decay, renewal, remembering and projecting, "Center, Ring, Mall" is perhaps a mourning, but one that desires and demands a rebirth.

When a man delves deep into his late father's last investigation, he begins uncovering secrets mankind was not meant to know.