Discoveries from Peru World Cinema

It is a transit between metaphorical territories intertwining the micro and the macro, the egg and Venus, where the erotic and love become a cosmic and sentimental journey. The axis is the female body, as a source of pleasure and life, the ungovernable universe, where the complementary male element surrounds it in an echo, which drifts into the void. To make it, we used interpolated film with super 8 of Swedish erotica, videos and images from NASA of Venus and its transit over the sun, recorded in 2012 and illustrative videos of fertilization, ovulation and nesting

Delfor Vargas, son of one of the photographers, protagonists of this film, introduces us to the artistic world of the famous Arequipa photographers of the 20th century: the Vargas brothers.

Ivan, a young man who grew up in a small town, embarks on an emotional journey in search of answers about his past. Intrigued by the mystery behind the nickname "Takeshi" that his mother and grandmother used to call him, Ivan raises questions about his identity and the sudden abandonment of his hometown during his adolescence

H wants to connect sexually with Y. Their relationship is in search of new experiences, so H gives a camera to Y, he finds the pleasure and the connection that he was looking for through her.

Everyone and everything is movement, the individual energy is part of a universal one. That makes us immortal, to run, to believe, to create and to be part of an energy that passes and transcends, because when we are no longer here, someone else will be moving.

The illusion drives her to get ready for the longed-for encounter. The ticking of time weaves her expectations. expectations. But the treacherous clock marks her pain: he is late, the opportunity vanishes in the mist of what could have been

In the mundane routine of yet another day, Rodrigo stumbles upon a precious object that sets him on a journey of introspection, fear, and confusion. As he grapples with his newfound discovery, he must also confront the challenge of welcoming an unexpected guest into his home.

A diagnosis, a time of day and your pause. What does it take to heal?

A documentary that examines the motivations and expectations of mothers from the Shipibo-Konibo indigenous community as they migrate with their families to the city of Lima.

The old Shaman makes his last trip to the Amazon jungle in search of a special beeswax for arrows that he learned to make when he had not yet been contacted by Western culture

Immersion in the artistic restoration work carried out in the convent of San Francisco de Lima.

In "Did You Want Us to Know About You?", an emotive short film, the peruvian filmmaker Santiago A. Barrios Pérez immerses us in an intimate reflection on the past and identity. Upon discovering a photographic treasure in an old nursing home, they encounter a mysterious figure: Helena. Through unanswered questions and a nostalgic gaze at these frozen moments in time, the film delves into the life of this unknown photographer. It's a touching journey in search of connections and meanings that transcend oblivion.

Don Lucho worked at what he knew how to do best, being a mechanic. He sought a creative way out of the economic crisis, building his mechanical workshop in a place that belongs to no one: the street.

Where do you start digging when you want to talk about your family? In Monologues around my parents, the director explores his family history in search of answers to the questions he has been trying to answer about his parents for years: Why did they decide to get married? Why did they decide to have a child? Why bring a human being to life? What fantasies surround the idea of marriage?

Mateo has been locked up in his house for a week trying to write for his new book. His girlfriend Amelia decides go check him and get him out of that toxic environment.

Daniel, a high school senior, dreams of becoming a musician, but when he's rejected at a talent audition, his world falls apart. Trapped by memories of a failed relationship, arguments with his father, and disagreements with his friends, he decides to run away from home. His journey will confront him with a hostile world that will test his integrity, but will also show him the value of friendship and the love of his family.

TV feature film directed by Aldo Salvini.

El Grito Subterráneo is a record of the resurgence of Peruvian "subte" rock. The birth of the "Second Wave", a movement that began in the 80's and did not stop until the early 90's, was the hotbed in which bands like Voz Propia, Leuzemia, Eutanasia, María Teta, Kaos, Flema, Narcosis, among others, burst into the scene.

Jorge Escompani is a "Shiringa" master, "Shiringa" is a tree which produces natural latex. This is considered a tradition that preserves great passion and environmental awareness. The extraction of latex from the Shiringa tree led to the death of thousands of indigenous people due to slavery during "the fever of latex" in the 19th century.

They only have one hour left before a group of terrorists undertake the last part of their mission: carrying and detonating a bomb in the Center of Lima, the Congress and the Government Palace. Behind them, an undercover police officer must decide whether to act or obey a direct order from the highest command of the Peruvian government. Shot in a single sequence shot.

Horror in the Andes is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. Directed by audio-visual anthropologist Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, it explores how Andean filmmakers use the horror genre as a means to revive stories of a pre-colonial past. Appropriating a global cinematic language to tell local (hi)stories, Horror in the Andes pays testament to the craft of filmmaking and its community.

After a painful breakup, Alberto discovers that he still has things to resolve related to his sexual orientation. In order to understand what "coming out" really means in a conservative and homophobic society, he will decide to talk to a dozen homosexual men, of different ages and backgrounds, with whom he discovers that there is no correct or unique way to accept oneself.

Miguel, a university student, is kidnapped in the middle of the street. After a month of torture, he is released under suspicious conditions. Thirty years have passed and he still wonders how he can be alive.

It portrays the post-violence scenarios in Peru. Victims, perpetrators, and other actors, in a still hostile environment, begin to confront their responsibilities and painful memories of the internal armed conflict.

The documentary unfolds the director's early years living with Pierre Robin syndrome through a collection of photographs, objects, and family documents. It's an intimate journey, a personal exploration, and reinterpretation of memory's images. A voyage back to the starting point, illuminating that moment to better comprehend its significance in the present

When strange events begin to occur around a lettuce, a young man calls a paranormal investigator for help.

Inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Before going to a family dinner, Julian tries to convince Romeo to break up with his girlfriend, Julian's sister, and live freely their romance; but Julian does not know that Romeo and his sister are getting married.

Pay attention. Listen. Act. Let's talk about it.

Presents the life and philosophy of Eduardo Calderon, a Peruvian folk healer. Includes his methods of diagnosis and a curing ceremony.

Juan has lived hiding his homosexual relationship. Neither has he been able to accept his partner’s gender transition. Now he is alone and quite lost. His best friend will help him to get ahead, but he must be the one to accept his reality and the fact that he still needs to free himself from many prejudices.

Notes on Connection III

The narrative of the story of Little Red Riding Hood encompasses a metaphorical and symbolic richness present in its characters, spaces, and elements. Its origins are rooted in themes of fear and sexuality, which allude to innocence and its loss.

In a warm city in northern Peru, a young man tries to leave his loneliness behind. A forced encounter gives him hope, or so it seemed.

A woman engages in a dialogue with death, through a journey she makes into the interior of her thoughts. Through them, she reunites with her ancestors and relates her ephemeral present with an unknown past that she will never know.

Day, night or early morning a young person goes online. He floods his mind consuming as much content as possible. Artificial human interaction on social networks. The irrelevance of self. The overwhelming of the confinement in front of the screen. A small journey through the centennial experience of digital navigation.

Try to recover a past that disappeared at the hands of the police, inhabiting/invading a house that, little by little, reveals its alien character. Through my father's voice I recompose and inhabit different spaces of the house, while his story builds the figure of my mother, who spent several years in prison for being part of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement and whom I saw for the first time at the age of thirteen.

Faced with the rapid spread of COVID-19 in the world population, a Lima family must comply with the quarantine established by the government to face the pandemic. Thus, the routine of confinement gradually begins to wreak havoc on all its members. The children are the most affected by a situation that, in spite of the measures implemented, is getting out of control.

Escape becomes a mission. The myth of the desert as a space of tension between the western, science fiction and religious mysticism.

The city is leaning towards the sunset and its characters are lost among failed layers of old family records. Lima is a hostile place and the words dedicated to it by Peruvian poets are mixed here to draw, from their involuntary communion, a deep disenchantment.

The film explores the life and work of the film maker's late grandfather, himself a pioneering Peruvian filmmaker of the 1970s. She captures his life through conversations with her grandmother, her mother and their domestic workers, interwoven with footage from his film archive.

An audiovisual essay on Jorge Eduardo Eielson and his relationship with Lima, framed in the context of mandatory confinement.

This group of films is brought together by their intention to imagine that which is "outside". Something extra cinematographic, extra artistic, extra linguistic. In these "outside" the question of immanence arises, endowing the film with a quality to become a sort of cave instrument. The mountains, the plants, the clouds. The beams of light on the ground, the murmur of the river. The scratches, the mystery of the underexposed, the stalking of silence. This game of the pre-human from the human, or the pre-cinematic from the cinematographic, seems here to be constituted from a ritual of intuition, observation and/or luck. Possible, but incomplete. The sharpness of these stagings perhaps lies in their questions about the most appropriate material for their plastic art: the effect of time on man. - Carlos Renteria

Ritual. The night and a room. The skylight.