Discoveries from Peru World Cinema

Documentary that studies the history, development, fauna and flora of the Peruvian coast.

On a deserted beach, two 17th century gentlemen duel for the honor of a beautiful 20th century woman.

Young Carmen arrives in Lima, dreaming of falling in love and finding happiness. She goes to live with her cousins and aunt, in the elegant Miraflores district. Soon she falls in love with Oscar, but he must leave her to go to the war. After a long time waiting for him to return, she learns he has died. Desperate, she decides to join a convent.

Carlos, an ambitious businessman, tries to take over the companies of his young wife Liz's father. To achieve his goal, they will take a short trip to a cabin outside the city. Along the way, a stranger named Manuel appears who will captivate Liz, unleashing a war of jealousy, passion, and bloodshed.

Yuriana is a girl with communication problems living in the Peruvian Amazon. After a dead hummingbird appears in her garden, her life changes and she must face her fears to find her voice.

History of the construction of the Plaza Dos de Mayo in the city of Lima and the transformation of an academic urban space into a popular space.

A young actor, pressured by his surroundings and manipulated on a live broadcast, struggles to break away from a career and a father figure he no longer desires, while cameras capture every moment of his emotional breakdown.

The story of a girl who grows up full of dreams, with parents who didn't understand that her mischief hid her intelligence.

A young man from Lima with a dissipated life will receive an inheritance, but a testamentary clause imposes a condition: he must travel all over Peru. He starts a long journey of two years which takes him through all the regions of the country. He observes agriculture, industry, mining, retail and gets to know the many ways in which his compatriots earn their living.

Pablo and Rosita are two siblings who live with their stepfather. He mistreats them, so they decide to run away. Rosita is unable to escape and is sold by her stepfather to child traffickers. Pablo begins searching for his sister, and along the way, he meets a group of street children and lives with them, desperate to find her. Father Oswaldo and Marcos work to dismantle this trafficking ring in the city of Huánuco.

"Dolida" is the female cry of internal struggle, within a violent macho society full of dangers. Our film recounts the inner journey of a young woman, which will take her through chapters full of pain, which have ended up defining part of her psychological evolution process.

After an unexpected breakup throws 35-year-old Patricia for a loop, it's up to her gal pals to show her single life is not all doom and gloom.

Julio César Arana, a rubber baron in the Putumayo region, who was characterized by being a callous, heartless, and debased personality, allies himself with foreign companies, to exploit rubber reserves in the Peruvian Amazon region. He stops at nothing, not even the extermination of indigenous tribes. Thus, the so-called crimes of Putumayo occur; the Amazonian communities rebel and resist.

It's a film based on true events, addressing the issues of violence against women, disappearances, and femicides. It tells the story of how a man's base instincts lead him to manipulate and subjugate his victims, including his partner and stepdaughter.

This documentary is an offbeat "road movie" in which acclaimed documentarian Heddy Honigmann travels with, and thereby discovers the stories of, taxi drivers in Lima. In the early 1990s, in response to Peru's inflationary economy and a government destabilized by corruption and Shining Path terrorism, many middle-class professionals used their own cars to moonlight as taxi drivers in order to weather the financial crisis.

Miluska works performing musical shows for a tourist hotel in southern Peru, where she meets Don Mauro, a respectable gentleman who admires her. Carlos Reyes, Don Mauro's former business partner, offers Miluska a job performing at his hotel in another province. She accepts, unaware that she is about to fall into a trap from which she will find it difficult to escape.

The life of Saint Dominic Savio adapted to this era, narrating his experiences in three stages: at four, ten and fourteen years of age.

A desert. Three lost people. One of them an invalid. After walking all day, under the sun and aimlessly, what's next?

Guadeloupe is the housekeeper of the bitchy and always busy lady Paula. Due to the busyness of the mistress, Guadeloupe practically replaced the mother of Señora Paula's children.

In the Amazonian jungle, the village of Palma Real resists the modern world. Carlito, a silent young man, decides to leave. On the muddy bed of the immense river, an encounter reveals the secret that Carlito has hidden from his community.

The film tells the story of four raw facing different situations of life: love, heartache and endless tragicomic adventures .

From the heart of the Amazon comes this exclusive LGBTQ+ compilation from emerging Latin American directors from Brazil and Peru. These 5 thought-provoking shorts prove that universal social themes have no borders. They are: The Last Romantics [Os Últimos Românticos] (2019); Savage Fire [Fogo Selvagem] (2017); My Only Earth Is in the Moon [Minha Única Terra É Na Lua] (2017); Sandra Calling [Sandra Chamando] (2017); Carlito Leaves Forever [Carlito se va para siempre] (2018).

Short film.

Jimena admires the perfection of her parents marriage. However, an unexpected gesture from her mother awakens a doubt in her that begins to unsettle the idealized image she has always had of her family. Jimena confronts the hidden side of morality and comes to understand that nothing is as it seems.

This is a film that finally approaches our moral meanderings with a true vision. Julio Cesar is a beautiful character who undertakes his life without major worries, even though his life is clearly astray. He simply stumbles along finding his way as the road unravels. Such as life truly is in this part (and many others) of the world, when numerous reasons lead one to put aside moral concerns when a quick opportunity may lead to some personal advantage.

The intense and unpredictable romance between a tailor and a young drama student, who commissions him to make the costumes for her graduation play, takes a dark turn when he meets her former lovers and opens up the relentless spiral of jealousy and distrust.

Federico dissatisfied with the current state of his marriage with Mariana revisits the apartment they had first met each other at twenty years ago. A mysterious event causes him to reflect on his past decisions and how much he is willing to sacrifice for the woman he loves.

A young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.

Ariana is a student at an Agronomy university. One day, during a Veterinary Course, the students and Muro, the professor, witness the outbreak of an unknown virus, very similar to rabies, and they must take action.

The story of a young orphan, law student whose close relatives limits to just his grandfather and one of his teachers.

After the death of their mother, Héctor returns from Spain. Upon his arrival, he faces a distant brother and an uncertain future.

Mariano, a trans man from Arequipa, Peru, visits his grandparents in the traditional village of Chivay, where he will face the conflict between his gender identity and his cultural heritage from the ancient Cabanas and Collaguas.

Lea, at 10 years old, still wets her bed. Gloria, her mother, divorced and almost absent, is looking for a wet nurse. Along comes Maria, a young girl who fervently believes that good wishes can come true. Maria will try to overcome Lea's hostility and in this attempt she will discover a dark secret

Rafael is 30 years old, divorced and father of three children. His life is even more complicated when his ex-wife announces that he will travel out of the country for 6 months and that he will have to take care of his 3 little kids.

Yao's boyfriend (29) is murdered while she's delivering an order for her Chinese restaurant. Now alone, she has to run the restaurant while dealing with the indifference of the police, the municipality, the entire city, and the deceased's parents, who want to take over the business. While coping with grief and the mystery surrounding the crime, Yao also experiences a newfound freedom that leads her to seek a less solitary and more exciting life, trying to become increasingly involved with this new world she still has to discover.

Enduring excruciating pain, Clara scours the internet for a cure for her headache. She stumbles upon a new feature of the search engine: an artificial intelligence. She soon discovers that the quest for curing her headache will challenge her perception of reality.

Los Fabulosos Wembler's de Iquitos are a mythical Amazonian cumbia band from Iquitos with more than half a century of history that fights to prevail in their hometown and in Peru, while being widely recognized abroad.

A grandson lives with his grandparents, taking care of housework and the old marriage. On a very special day for the granny, it will be shown why the unpredictability of an event gives a new value to the young man´s presence in the house.

Luis Tayori is an indigenous Harakbut descendant whose origins trace back to the depths of the Peruvian jungle. Years after the first contact with Dominican missionaries, Luis recounts the memories of his childhood and those of his grandparents.

A dreamer with a calm and minstrel attitude lays on the grass, recites a poem and makes an offer to a tree. Is he dreaming, or is he a part of a dream? A contemporary peasant dress in a nostalgic revolution’s uniform, goes with his work routine in the countryside, takes care of the cows and thinks about the meaning of death and dream. The real documents and fiction blends into the path of the characters in a rural area in Cuba, and becomes a metaphor of an island inside another island or a dream inside another dream.

After being attacked by the police, Katya, a trans sex worker, is given the opportunity to publicly denounce the assault in a television report. She decides not to do so, despite her desire to make a change, to prevent his mother from learning about her true occupation.

Carlos is a university professor married 25 years, with whom he thinks is the woman of his life. Estela discover infidelity, his wife, his life crumbles and begins a new stage as a lonely man disappointed in his past.

A storyteller, mime and actor, at the age of 86 years old, self-represents and tells the story of his life, moving between reality and fiction; showing us how art and imagination change the way we see life. A poetic journey between creation, play, loneliness and old age.

Marlene lives in the house of the old woman she takes care of. When her friend disappears, she escapes every night to investigate. The clues lead her to night jobs in which she meets other women who, like her, have developed their gifts into superpowers.

The movie follows the life of Enrique Aet, an engineer whose main obsession is to improve communications between the Peruvian jungle and Lima.

Based on the novel by Ricardo Palma.

After collecting multiple records related to a painful family tragedy, Victor dives into the archive in search of answers about what really happened on January 26, 1983

Short film.

A man returns to a hacienda, lost in time and history, where, as a child or teenager, in his budding career as a writer, he left a typewriter stored away as a symbolic object. He goes to find it and unearth it. A return to the lost childhood in which his first creative impulses took root.

In the 21st century, a mestizo village in the Peruvian Andes celebrates an ancient Andean marriage rite called La Palpa, in which the entire village, for several days, relives the famous "Andean reciprocity" through complex rituals and intense community dances.

A live portrait of the Creole composer Don Pedro Espinel, known as the King of Polkas, who opens the doors of his house to tell us about his life.

An ex-cop, a martial arts master, a hustler and an ex-soldier join forces to fight crime on the fringes of the law in the city of Lima, Peru. They form a gang known as La Gran Sangre (The Great Blood), due to the pact they make, by getting a wound on their wrist.

Short film that, with black humor, depicts life as a reality TV show.

A violent blind man wanders through the center of Lima, upon entering a restaurant he causes an incident with the public and the employees.

Leticia thinks that forgiveness is her only way out. She doesn't realize that in reality she could be the origin of a misfortune that will infect her entire family.