Discoveries from Peru World Cinema

In a perverted future, Fnari is an android used as a slave and sex toy by his owner.

Andrea (21) returns again to Huaraz, but this time in search of someone who is no longer there.

Sequel of "the rhythm of las kinoks is the rhythm of friendship and the other way around / kinok memoria 2??? / kinok 15??? / kinok #??? / smoking kinok 1???"

Polisha: The inspiring story of Sandra, a Peruvian trans woman who, through poetry and activism, fights against transphobia and conservatism to affirm her identity and promote inclusion in a society that still faces great challenges.

Short documentary about the day of "Cuchita", a person who works at a street stall selling fried fish on the streets of Lima, Peru.

The petroglyphs located in the district of La Huaca, in the province of Paita, are possibly the oldest vestiges of native cultures in the area. Taking the petroglyphs as a starting point, other graphic patterns in present-day coastal spaces are explored.

Lucas must avoid being expelled from school. His only safe place

In Peru in 1990, Makoto, a man of Japanese descent, visits the old house where he lived with his father. Upon seeing it, he remembers when his father began training him in the martial art "Aikido" so that he could defend himself at school, where he was beaten for his Asian features.

Elliot and Nora are survivors in a world dominated by giant puppets. Elliot has been injured and is missing a leg. Nora must protect him at all costs and find a way to put an end to the monsters that stalk them.

A short crime thriller film.

Cinema Week ULima Shortfilm

a kind of re-make of Hollis Frampton's 1971 "nostalgia" (?) /// ‹‹Following art historian Ervin Panofsky's analysis of linear perspective as a "symbolic form" of the modern age, we may even call database a new symbolic form of a computer age, a new way to structure our experience of ourselves and of the world.›› (Lev Manovich) /// (la expresión personal no es personal)

Having just arrived in Berlin, finding a place to live seems impossible, until the opportunity arrives. Carla, a Latin-American girl, has a phone call with James, who rents a room in his apartment. He explains to her that if she wants to move there, she will have to share the same hedonist lifestyle they practice there

Lima Alterna Peruvian ShortFilm

916 Shortfilm

Filmmaker and artist Mabel Valdiviezo makes a soul-stirring journey to reunite with her family in Peru after 16 years of estrangement, in this cinematic exploration of family, belonging, and the transformative power of art. Brimming with yearning, Mabel returns home, only to confront a whirlwind of emotions as old wounds are reopened. Her mother's perception of her absence adds to the complexity, leading to Mabel's heartfelt confession of her troubled past, marked by addiction and turmoil, as an immigrant in San Francisco. Offering intimate access to the artist and her vibrant photo paintings of the family, the documentary gives audiences a slice of life that challenges the prevailing narrative of “good immigrant” versus “bad immigrant.”

Through browsing your computer desktop, opening folders, sounds and visiting some web pages. The director traces various routes on his screen to generate fragments of an autobiography.

A place that exists in spite of us

Constantly interrupted by the ringing of a telephone, a man is desperate to poke his eye out. Can he succeed?

Bruma is a visual documentary chronicle about the fragility and, at the same time, the integrity of life. Bruma observes and contemplates the human condition and the different ways of existing through the metaphorical space of the sea, the fishing cycle and the human beings who survive from this ancestral relationship.

Marco, fascinated by the legends of the “Stone Prison,” explores the ancient Haquira prison with Julia and Laura. They uncover traces of a dark past, revealing the prison’s tragic history and its victims. Combining elements of history and mystery, the short film takes viewers on an emotional journey across the timelines of the present and the past.

Alina, a shy fourteen year old with a secret setup to flee school in search of her estranged mother, soon finds her plan hampered by the unexpected presence of her half little brother, a boy named Leo, that will teach her a thing or two along the way.

Sabrina, a music student, will try the impossible to make Leonardo fall in love with her, which will lead her to take actions that could have great consequences.

This short is part of the José Antonio Portugal Film Archive.

Shortfilm for AlEste

Combines documentary and fiction to show the situation of minors prosecuted in military courts and before faceless tribunals, and unjustly sentenced for terrorism to sentences ranging from 15 years to life imprisonment.

Feature film that shows us the festivities of the Virgen del Carmen in the Colca Valley, through the oral traditions narrated by the inhabitants of the Colca Valley, it shows religious syncretism and how the Spanish implanted their culture and in particular the Catholic religion; Well, this was the justification for the conquest. The evangelization campaigns aimed to destroy the indigenous imagination and convert all indigenous people to the Christian religion.

In the verdant, lush jungles of the Amazon, a tribe of indigenous people has lived in harmony with their surroundings for millennia. The Shipibo tribe has learned the secrets of the earth, honing their knowledge to transform the native flora into powerful medicines that can cure any sickness. But their peaceful existence is threatened.

A humble peasant – generous to good people and righteous against bad people – will become, after his unfortunate death and in time, a revered plaster icon. At the level of a god who provides fertility, abundance, and prosperity.

Jorge Bedoya was an amateur filmmaker from a well-to-do family in Arequipa. Starting from the 1940s, he used an unconventional format to film: Double 8mm. This project takes up of that recording format the concept of two parallel sequences of frames that interact with each other to depict, from a current perspective, the social class to which the archive belongs.

In the labyrinths of memory, nothing is what is believed to be; just a game of shadows.

A boy descended from dancers embarks on a search for his mother, experiencing unique adventures together with his best friend, Jorge.

Several Andean communities of Cusco are organizing to take the lands that belonged to their ancestors and that are being taken away from them by the State and the Cooperatives

After his mother´s death, Fabio refuses to lose her forever.