Discoveries from Peru World Cinema

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A young socialite feels a void in her life. On a aimless stroll, she happens upon a boy who will change her life, helping her discover beauty in natural and everyday environments.

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Making of the shooting of the Peruvian film La Muralla Verde, directed by Armando Robles Godoy and filmed in the Amazon with the Mexican actor German July.

Documentary about Ucayali activities

This is a personal and family film that documents the early years of the author's daughter, Aiñari Indacochea von Mollendorff. Filming began in 1972, when his wife, the choreographer Yvonne von Mollendorff, was still pregnant, and was completed in 1978 when his daughter was four years old. Aiñari's early life is recorded on video and superimposed to create a dialogue between different time periods. The expressions of wonder, emotion, and joy on the four-year-old girl's face, reflecting on her own growth, are juxtaposed with images of her as a younger child with her mother.

Consisted of a stop-motion trek through the different spaces and objects of Rafael Hastings' house in Lima, prior to it being devastated in the October 3rd earthquake of 1974.

In the rainforest of Peru, there once stood a legendary and mysterious city called Paraíso. It was founded by survivors of an Andean earthquake who dreamed of building a future for their families. But that dream quickly ended when drug traffickers and Maoist guerrillas stormed the town. Today, Paraíso, once a place of luxury and extravagance, is nothing but ruins, reclaimed by the jungle. The town was bombed, destroyed, and abandoned, but its former inhabitants are beginning to return and tell their story for the first time.

A man is followed home by a stranger.

In a corner of Ferreñafe's Central Market, where the vibrant colors of vegetables, fruits, and fabrics mingle with the echo of voices and haggling, a shoemaker works, his entire life dedicated to leather. With hands weathered by years of use and tools passed down through generations, he mends more than just shoes: he rescues stories, memories, and the essence of a fading craft.

Documents the congress of the Peasant Confederation of Peru.

The story of a Peruvian group that wanted to "write the facts of the future universal history," and had to face their own limitations as well as the ones imposed by the times they lived in, the 80's, a decade troubled by the political crisis and violence. The political passion, the alienation, and the search for recognition are some of the ingredients in this musical story.

Peruvian dancer and choreographer Victoria Santa Cruz demonstrates her own work with her folk ensemble in an interview with Eugenio Barba.

The film is based on video diary entries that the authors shared on their journey from Brazil/Peru to Florida. The juxtaposition of images of everyday life on both sides of America, connected by a single sea, is accompanied by text fragments in Czech and Spanish. These refer to Operation Condor, during which the US supported dictatorships in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as to the vision of “colored parachutes” by Brazilian thinker and activist Ailton Krenak, who calls on us to use our creativity at the end of the world to make parachutes with which to delay the fall.

Fernanda, a cook, returns to her land in the rugged desert of Chilca in search of her late father’s secret recipe, where more than one obstacle awaits her.

Hip-hop artist trvko was murdered by an undercover policeman during —or rather after, when it had already been repressed and dispersed by the police—a protest in Lima, Peru, the 15th of October of 2025.

Yuyapichis, a village in the Peruvian Amazon, is the starting point from which memories and family stories of displacement, misunderstandings and estrangement come together, while images of daily life wonder about the future of women who were born in a territory where the extractive economy shapes the social and political structures of the community.

While reading Rosa Luxemburg's book Mass Strike, Party and Trade Unions, I discovered that it was not my father's - as I had assumed- but my aunt's, so she and I started sending letters to each other. Writing to her becomes an exercise of memory in which affections and memories interconnect with the territories and political history of the place where I grew up (Lima-PE).

A boy confronts his conscience in search of becoming a better person.

Kinok-adaptation of Peruvian playwright Sara Joffre's theatre adaptation of the Grimm brothers' Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Is there a certain age to fall in love? Nanito offers a captivating answer: the heart never gives up. The film tells the story of Nanito, an 80-year-old man who decides to win back Antonia, an old flame. Her innocence and her antics invite the audience to laugh, be moved, and reconsider preconceived ideas about love in old age.

A member of the local community patrol is taken to a hospital after collapsing, and then he experiences a nightmare in the Peruvian highlands where he must face a group of terrorists and the hostile attitude of the military, amidst the confusion and fear caused by the disappearance of his family members.

In Satipo, in the jungle region of Junín, live the Asháninka, an ancestral ethnic group of the Upper Amazon. Surrounded by the encroaching civilization of the white man, they are living the final days of their original culture, which is rooted in harmony with nature.

In Simbilá, on the northern coast of Peru, families of potters continue to preserve millenia-old traditions. With a wooden paddle and a stone, they mold clay into everyday objects for contemporary life.

FFC 92: Llontop vs. Romero was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Thursday, June 26, 2025 at the Art Media Complex in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Documentary about Ivan Alegría "Coyote" made by Fabricio Alatrista.

Reconstructs the protests in Peru through a fragmented and sensory perspective.

Short film from 1° Lima Docs

When the world stops, her thoughts start to overflow. A strange virus has changed everything, and nothing feels safe anymore. Through voice notes sent to a close friend, a young woman tries to understand what's happening around her — and inside her.

The life of Luis Guillermo Cavero Laca, a kind and persevering man. His legacy of joy continues to inspire and unite his family after his departure.

In the Peruvian Amazon, the indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources impacts local communities, violating their fundamental rights, access to resources, and the possibility of leading a dignified life. Iván, Policarpo, and Verónica are journalists and communicators who report on these issues, facing threats to their safety as they fight against misinformation and the climate crisis.