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- Five college students go on an overnight camping trip. When they return home, they find themselves in a town torn apart by deceit, devastation, and a town in turmoil, for the moment they find safety and refuge or do they?
- DirectorRonal AvilaStarsRenato CastilloFernando BacilioKevelin LinaresGuillermo is a rookie cop fresh out of school police, at the same time a serial murderer who is killing women in the village called "salverrry" and with all the desire to participate and adrenaline manages to get into serious trouble appears, risking the lives of his wife.
- DirectorLeonor CaraballoMatteo NorziStarsAna Cecilia StieglitzFilippo TimiArturo IzquierdoA film shaped like a shamanic journey, steeped in a psychoactive brew, exploring fear and destiny in the jungle of the mind.
- DirectorCarlo BresciaStarsMarisel La RosaAna Zavala RíosAfter a near death experience, a young woman begins an initiatic and mythic journey through the Andes looking for balance with nature in a three thousand years-old ceremonial center.
- DirectorGustavo SaavedraStarsCarlos Julio VegaSebastian RubioJavier ValdésGrandpa is about to turn 80. His son and grandsons begin a journey to his homeland, Huamachuco, a place he has not seen since he was 9 years old. Along the way they discover an unexpected past and the journey will become a path of no return.
- DirectorSandro VenturaStarsNatalia SalasDaniela SarfatiRoger del ÁguilaFive college students visit an old, abandoned house which hides a siniester story. Three of them dissapear, and through the version of one of the survivors, the mystery of the house And its strange presence unfolds: an entity called "El apóstol" ("the apostle").
- DirectorFrank Pérez-GarlandStarsVanessa SabaGiovanni CicciaGianella NeyraEvery couple is unique. Each one has its own code, rules and secrets and it is unrepeatable. But at the same time there are patterns that all of us inherit from our families. We all have two choices: repeat that pattern in the family we choose to build or build a new pattern. That's the fight that the characters of About Them embraces. Both of them are grown up adults who hasn't been able to move away form their past. Both of them are carrying a big bag on their back. Both of them has decided to love in a new way. They are trying to build a new pattern but the past reaches them at every step. The reasons why they are together and the way they choose to love each other is a secret only understandable by them. Any judgment we can make from the outside could be wrong. But it can also be a reflection of our own selves since the characters of About Them are unique, as we all are.
- DirectorJuan Daniel F. MoleroStarsMuki SabogalTeromLiliana AlbornozA teenage misfit spends her first days out of school slacking and experimenting with drugs and cybersex. She meets Junior online, he's an amateur porn dealer on a delusional journey regarding the Mayan Apocalypse and other conspiracy theories. Once they meet in the 'real world' unusual events start to unfold as bizarre characters appear in this contemporary non-love story that portrays a post-modern Lima, an internet glitchy virus, corruption, psychedelia and ancient ruins.
- DirectorJavier Fuentes-LeónStarsSalvador del SolarAngie CepedaLucho CáceresEdo Celeste is a renowned crime novelist, who is writing the final book in the series about his alter ego, detective Felipe Aranda. Edo is obsessed with the disappearance of his fiancee Celia, which took place the day of the 2007 earthquake in the southern coast of Peru. Seven years later, an enigmatic woman brings Edo dozens of cryptic photos that may help solve the mystery of Celia's disappearance. Edo senses that he's being tempted into a dangerous game, but believes this is the only way to find his fiancee alive. A labyrinth of clues submerges Edo in a race through the streets of Lima and the deserted beaches of Paracas. His final destination will confront him with the ultimate riddle any writer could face.
- DirectorHéctor GálvezStarsPaul VegaAntonieta PariIsabel GaonaA forensic anthropologist in Lima leads a group that helps people find their missing relatives from the Internal Civil War that took place in Peru between 1980 and 2000. He has to deal with his estrangement from his own family and a difficult case involving a desperate woman looking for her husband.
- DirectorSalvador del SolarStarsDamián AlcázarTatiana AstengoJairo CamargoMagallanes, a former army soldier (Damian Alcazar) drives a taxi and eventually a driver of a retired colonel (Federico Luppi), who was in command of his troops in times of struggle against subversion in Ayacucho. But something more involving both. A secret that begin to reveal when, in the midst of his pilgrimage as a taxi driver in the city of Lima, Magallanes believes see in Celina, a humble woman (Magaly Solier), which now runs, barely a hair salon on the outskirts of the capital, one of the protagonists of a dark episode in the past.
- DirectorDaniel Rodríguez RiscoStarsVanessa SabaMayella LlocllaManuel GoldSilvia, a beautiful 45-year-old widow, is obsessed with having a child and finds in attractive but naive Mercedes the perfect candidate to bear it. Silvia kindly offers her a job and a room in her house, and then manipulates her into seducing a young man named Jaime. They soon fall in love and Mercedes becomes pregnant. Silvia will do anything in her power to keep the baby, even if it means leaving a couple of bodies behind.
- DirectorJonatan RelayzeStarsLiliana TrujilloCindy DíazFranco DiazRosa is a mature police officer who Is forced to take care of her grandson after her daughter steal her savings. Everything takes a wrong turn one night. Only a miracle can save her.
- DirectorAni Alva HelferJesus Alvarez BetancourtJohn MaytaStarsPietro SibilleFiorella RodriguezTeddy GuzmánComedy film that places us in a hypothetical end of the world, precisely on December 21, 2012. Several characters must accept this reality and decide what they will do during that last day, before a meteorite hits with the earth.
- DirectorRocio LladoStarsWendy VasquezAna Maria EstradaGonzalo RevoredoIn 2012, while avoiding the demolition of a colonial Peruvian mansion; A Peruvian immigrant woman, returning briefly from Spain, discovers that she and others had inhabited the very same house two hundred years prior; before Peruvian independence from Spain in 1821.
- DirectorSandro VenturaStarsFiorella RodriguezAriel LevyAdolfo AguilarIt's story of Abril, a mysterious woman with a particular life-style that she stands in the way of Bruno, a Chilean young man who lives in Peru and he's passing through an existential crisis.
- DirectorBruno AscenzoStarsCarlos AlcántaraCarlos CarlínKatia CondosA gathering of friends celebrating the 25th anniversary of high school
- DirectorRossana Diaz CostaStarsÉlide BreroEsteban CuetoFlavio EspinozaTrip to Timbuktu is the story of Ana and Lucho, two teenagers who live in Peru. Their story of love, which starts in childhood, reveals the changes which took place in this country during the 80's. For them, the only way to survive in the middle of violence, poverty and lack of opportunities is through their love, a sort of refuge which has as its homeland an imaginary country called Timbuktu. Nevertheless, the reality will stand in their way and collapse their utopia.
- DirectorFernando Villaran LujanStarsRicardo BlumeLorena CaravedoMayra CoutoThree old friends reunite at their best friend Kike's funeral and remember that he wanted his ashes to be spread in the sea near their town Callao. One of them, Balito, steals the ash tray And they begin a funny journey plenty of anecdotes most of them related to their passion for soccer And their local team "Sport boys".
- DirectorFrank Pérez-GarlandStarsVania AccinelliSergio GjurinovicVanessa SabaSeven friends go on a remote jungle vacation where they are terrorized by a primeval spirit, but as they struggle to survive they come to realize that they brought the evil with them.
- DirectorJulia Patricia PerezStarsGaston AcurioAndoni AdurizAlex AtalaThere are many great chefs around the world. Only one is considered to be a National hero. Meet chef Gaston Acurio and follow him in a journey to find out the stories, the inspirations and the dreams behind the man that has taken his cuisine outside the kitchen in a mission to change his country with food. Let this journey take you into the world of peruvian cuisine to discover the power of food in peru. Because the people that are passionate enough to believe they can make a difference, are actually the ones who do.
- DirectorBacha CaravedoChinón HigashionnaStarsCarlos AlcántaraReynaldo ArenasRamón GarcíaDog, an ex-militiaman granted amnesty by the Peruvian government, is now a killer for hire. One of his missions leads him to a Christian church where he meets Milagros, an adolescent towards whom he feels a strange attraction. Among prayers, tears and assassinations, the voice of the temple's apostle prompts Dog to question himself. His gun is on the verge of becoming a sword of God.Dog, an ex-militiaman granted amnesty by the Peruvian government, is now a killer for hire. One of his missions leads him to a Christian church where he meets Milagros, an adolescent towards whom he feels a strange attraction. Among prayers, tears and assassinations, the voice of the temple's apostle prompts Dog to question himself. His gun is on the verge of becoming a sword of God.
- DirectorEnrica PérezEnrica PérezStarsClaudia Ruiz del CastilloFiorella de FerrariMaria UnoccThree women of vastly differing ages and origins cope with life in three distinct regions of Peru. Eva, a teenage girl from the lush tropics of the Amazonian jungle, experiences a sexual awakening by way of a forbidden relationship with her young and handsome uncle. Victoria, a wealthy socialite from Lima, suffers a terrible secret that renders her inner life as gray and melancholic as the city surrounding her. Zoraida, an elderly peasant from a destitute village in the Andean Mountains, confronts her worst fears in the wake of the unexpected return of her estranged son. Three unconnected regions, three introverted women, three stories of discovery shaped by three different geographies, societies and climates of the same fragmented country.
- DirectorManuel SilesStarsOswaldo SalasMagaly SolierPaulina BazánA movie about the cultural resistance in a country besides diverse, divided.
- DirectorEvelyne PegotStarsGiovanni CicciaJackelyne VásquezRossana Fernández MaldonadoAdrian, a successful lawyer, discovers dark secrets from his father's past that threaten his well-earned reputation.
- DirectorCarlos CiurlizzaStarsRoger Abad PiñinEva AyllónKristen BarananoSebastian returns to his hometown to take care of his mother after her sudden illness. While there, he struggles to come to terms with his past and the closed-minded people in this town.
- DirectorFernando Vílchez Rodríguez2009, in the high plateau of the Peruvian jungle, near the border to Ecuador. a mining company forces their way into the depths of the primeval forest to search for mineral resources, without any regard for damage. They do this with the government's permission, but without consent from the indigenous people, the Awajun natives who live there. Known for their fearlessness and courage, the Awajun stand up to the invaders. But in the fight for their land they are brutally struck down by the ultra liberal government. Violence breeds counter-violence. A video workshop is the way of follow the trail of violence.
- DirectorMarco PandoStarsWilmar PandoWe are embarking on a cinematographic journey with the comic book hero Tintin. As always, Tintin is accompanied by his loyal friend Snowy. This time he is not a white terrier but a hairless Peruvian dog characterized as a portable pharmacy in the shape of a wooden trolley and a hot water bottle. Our Peruvian Tintin is also not a blond, confident and young, daring detective but an anti-hero. Alone, naive but sympathetic traveler, wandering through stunning landscapes, on a quest to discover his own contemporary Peru. He transforms the European view and the gathered local facts into new interpretations of old mystical tales. We see him carrying illuminating ice back to the glacier and he changes into a leopard in the jungle.
- DirectorGianfranco QuattriniStarsRobertino GranadosEmiliano CarrazzoneManuel Fanego'Planta Madre' tells the story of the Santoro Brothers, Argentine rock pioneers during the psychedelic seventies. And how Diamond Santoro arrives today at Iquitos (Peru) in search of the Ayahuasca healing that was planned by his brother, 40 years ago.
- DirectorDiego E. Sarmiento PaganStarsDario TapullimaEder TapullimaJorge TapullimaEarly every morning, young Jorge harvests bananas with his machete. After breakfast back in his village, he wanders with his friends in the lush wilderness around the Amazon headwaters. Childhood could hardly be more carefree or peaceful.
- DirectorRicardo MaldonadoStarsCarlos AlcántaraTatiana AstengoCarlos CabreraBefore becoming one of the most recognised public figures of Peru, Carlos Alcántara tells his origins beginning from just a normal guy to the great "Pataclaun" and more characters.
- DirectorDorian Fernández-MorisStarsJürgen GömezMarisol AguirreAiram GallianiSet in Iquitos, the story follows Andrea (Airam Galliani), a 15-years-ago teenage girl, who suffers the death of her father. With the help of her friends from school, they encourage her to contact him using the ouija. However, this triggers a series of terrifying events.
- DirectorAlvaro VelardeStarsCeline AguirreKarine AguirreMarisol AguirreThe evil doings of a bitter woman who lives in a lighthouse, against her childhood sweetheart, who had longtime forgotten her and now runs a hotel by the beach, is the excuse for portraying human restricted perception of reality and a celebration of old film-making, B movies, and the naivete of vintage TV family series. Above all an aesthetic and humorous adventure.
- DirectorRaul del BustoStarsFernando EscribensNatalia PeñaRicardo SandiAs a director travels across the country to find locations for his latest film, about a narcotics officer dealing with strange situations both in his life and work, the script he is writing begins to merge with his own life.
- DirectorJulio WissarStarsClaudia DammertFernando De SoriaUrpi GibbonsA young couple buy a house at an auction without realizing they are getting more than what they bargained for: There is somebody -or something- lurking in the shadows at night. Will they solve the mystery surrounding their new home before it is too late?
- DirectorEduardo Mendoza de EchaveStarsRay AlvarezJorge BardalesGianfranco BreroThree men searching for forgiveness during a soccer championship final.
- DirectorJesus Alvarez BetancourtStarsBruno AscenzoGisela Ponce de LeónRoger del ÁguilaJuan Carlos and Natalia are two young adults who spend one particularly complicated day together. They meet a Saturday morning at a park and, without knowing each other, they decide to make each other company.
- DirectorGonzalo BenaventeStarsJesús AlzamoraSergio GjurinovicManuel GoldIt is 1968 and Guille and Bobby, two friends who live in La Punta, Callao, enjoy the beach in their last summer before starting college and start their adult lives. Manolo is a teenager who dreams of one day making movies without much hope because of him being Peruvian. They listen to rock and feel sorry for how hard they find to leave their neighborhood to go to a concert. Their routine will change with the arrival of a young hippie spirit named Emma. The music of Los Yorks, Los Saicos, Telegraph Avenue, Los Shain's, Traffic Sound, The (St. Thomas) Pepper Smelter and Black Sugar are present in this film.
- DirectorJavier CorcueraStarsBillie CartierA trip through the diversity of black and native Peruvian music.
- DirectorAlex HidalgoStarsOscar AvilesMacarena CarrilloEsteban CuetoThe first Peruvian-American musical. This is a story of two gifted dancers, Arturo and Rosario and their journey to make their dreams come true, under the beat of the marinera.
- DirectorAlberto DurantStarsLiliana AlegríaMilena AlvaOscar CarrilloAfter spending ten years in prison accused of terrorism, Milagros is found not guilty and is released. During her detention, she was raped and became pregnant. Noemi, now a ten year old girl, believes her mother has been working abroad all this time. The film begins the day both meet.After spending ten years in prison accused of terrorism, Milagros is found not guilty and is released. During her detention, she was raped and became pregnant. Noemi, now a ten year old girl, believes her mother has been working abroad all this time. The film begins the day both meet.
- DirectorDaniel Vega VidalDiego Vega VidalStarsFernando BacilioLidia RodríguezJuan Luis MaldonadoSomeone is out to get Constantino Zegarra. At least that's what Constantino Zegarra believes - and he has his reasons. His car window is smashed, he receives a career-killing demotion, and then, while driving at night, he's hit in the neck by what appears to have been a stray bullet. Or was it? Constantino is a judge with no sympathy for sob stories and an impressive conviction rate.
- DirectorJose Carlos GarciaStarsViviana AndradeIgor CalvoIrene EyzaguirreRoute 168 is a curious anecdote about a bus ride, where a girl struggles with an aggressive and irrational atmosphere. Without any logical explanation all the passengers are staring at her.
- DirectorJoanna LombardiStarsÉlide BreroStephanie OrúeDelfina ParedesMs. Pilar, almost 81, shares her quiet house situated in a provincial part of Peru with Consuelo, Milagros and Tuna. The daily routine in this household, where one day could be confused with any other, revolves around insignificant events.The telephone interrupts the stillness. It's Patricia, one of Pilars daughters, calling to say that she will be arriving in a few hours with her daughter, her daughters husband and her granddaughter in tow. Pilar nervously agrees and immediately starts to worry. The household routine is forced to change. In this film coexist three generations of mothers. They are forced to interact with one another, to face and also ignore each other, to spend a night together under the same roof.
- DirectorAndrea FrancoThe 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.
- DirectorÁlvaro SarmientoStarsNancy CallañaupaRosmery HuanacoNino MironesMaribel and Carmencita are two indigenous girls who work in Cuzco Central Square, taking pictures with the tourists in exchange of a tip. Leon, Maribel's father does not have a regular job, which causes fights with Ines, his wife and the rest of the family.
- DirectorMariana RondónStarsSamuel Lange ZambranoSamantha CastilloBeto BenitesA nine-year-old boy's preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother.
- DirectorMiguel Barreda-DelgadoStarsMelania UrbinaNorma MartínezMiguel IzaTen characters. Ten stories. Ten monologues. A chain of situations that reflect the constant flow of life. The poetry of the common actions with one issue in common: fair of freedom.
- DirectorTom SanchezStarsJuan Carlos MontoyaRodrigo ViaggioIrma MauryThe fate of an arm wrestling match leads two brothers to a house party where the younger one hopes to lose his virginity, but when things get out of hand the boys must overcome their sibling rivalry if they are going to save the day.
- DirectorRodrigo Otero HeraudStarsCarlos Otero HeraudThe story of a mystic man from the city, saturated by the world's twisted ways. He needs to search in the ancient Peruvian history, looking for the mythology of the ancient mountain spirits that ruled and invigorated all beings in the past. There he finds Pariacaca, the reformer from the old days, great yet forgotten and defeated by the cross. He gets his heavy backpack and walks directly into the old sanctuary of the mountain. There he finds the remnants of the extinct cult to the sacred mountains. Finally, he gets to the same mountain, to whom he speaks and begs until he is done speaking, hoping to return to his city with the strength of a new shining purpose.
- DirectorJuan Alejandro RamírezStarsJanet OrosA woman fights a losing battle: one can't be poor and still want to stay among the familiar, the everyday . . . where one was born and raised, only to watch with a mixture of confusion and rage her surroundings become deserted, bleak places, that just rear children that disperse to faraway, ugly cities. Told with great lyricism, Nadie Especial is about anyplace where the cards will always seem to be stacked against the powerless. But mostly, it is about the resolve showed by some to challenge a perhaps inevitable fate in hopes of restoring the pieces of a long-eroded dignity. Even if that decision furthers their isolation as they are relentlessly pushed toward a last frontier.
- DirectorAlvaro Delgado AparicioStarsCarlos CubasIván LozanoIn the outskirts of Lima, a young prostitute tends to his father, a fallen-from-grace artisan. However, he feels that his efforts are never enough. The young man tries to break free but his dependence is stronger.
- DirectorAdrián SabaStarsVíctor PradaAdrian du BoisMiguel IzaA forensic cleaner will become accountable for an 8-year-old orphan who has been left behind in the middle of an epidemic crisis in Lima.
- DirectorMiguel Barreda-DelgadoStarsAdriana CebriánDoris GuillénThe biography of Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo, an outstanding nun of the Monastery of Santa Catalina, in Arequipa, Peru. A mystical character that reformed live in the monastery. An example of a living full of loyalty for her convictions and ideals.
- DirectorWilton MartinezStarsHilda QuispeNilo AbrilTransnational Fiesta: Twenty Years Later explores the dramatic changes in the Andean peasant community and its U.S.-based migrant colony first documented in our award-winning film, Transnational Fiesta: 1992. Revisiting the Quispe family and the major religious festival they sponsored two decades ago, our sequel offers a historical perspective of transnational migration, one of the most important social phenomena of our time.
- DirectorRoberto de la PuenteStarsJulio NavarroMariananda Schempp
- DirectorJoel CaleroStarsSofia HumalaLucho CáceresPold GastelloThe 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.
- DirectorFabrizio AguilarStarsÉlide BreroKani HartJuan Ubaldo HuamánIn the last days of 2012 everyone is talking about the end of the world. This doesn't seem to affect the routine of Wachi, a grumpy watchman. However the arrival of Tesla, an impulsive fifteen year-old girl, does. Tesla, Wachi, an a lively 80 year old called Trini, spend the last days of 2012 together, sharing a bond despite, their differences.
- DirectorEduardo SchuldtStarsMoisés SuárezMoisés Iván MoraJulio MorínUnlikely events shake France. All of the heroes from the books of famous author Jules Verne were brought to life and, without knowing it, began to cause chaos and destruction. But when the new French President, and the Minister of Culture conceive to re-release a novel by the great writer, they accidently corrupt everything within, using a device called "The Imaginasium". Only a team of four talented children can save France now, as they're sent into the stories in order to return all of them back on track and put the heroes of Jules Verne's novels back to the pages from whence they came.
- DirectorCamilo VilaStarsJohn RobinsonMichael DeLorenzoAlex MerazA young California surfer has to grow up in a hurry when he is thrown into a Peruvian political prison in 1980.
- DirectorJesús M. SantosStarsGaston AcurioFerran AdriàWe follow the trip made by the chefs Ferran Adriá and Gastón Acurio, as we discover the social phenomena of Peruvian gastronomy, where cuisine became an amazing asset for social development for the population.
- DirectorFelipe DegregoriStarsFabiola Acho DávilaSegundo Rodríguez VelaA documentary that encourages life of the coastal inhabitants of the Peruvian Amazon against isolation and oblivion.
- DirectorDavid BisbanoMychal SimkaStarsHernán BravoNatalia RosminatiRicardo AlanisTo save their kingdom from evil rodents, two young mice go on a quest to a forbidden world to find a legendary magic crystal that has the power to restore order to their kingdom.
- DirectorMiguel Angel MouletStarsFélix DiazJosefina Morales
- DirectorJulio O. RamosStarsCarlos Cano de la FuenteSusan LeónMayella LlocllaThe death of a woman complicates the underground business of a sleazy motel's janitor.
- DirectorClaudia Llosa
- DirectorEsteban RojasStarsMiguel BarrigaOrlando BarrigaEsteban RojasMiguel Barriga is the frontman of Sexual Democracia, a Chilean band with 12 released albums that was a pioneer in the fusion of pop rock with pachanga, tropical, folklore and comedy. Throughout 2006, a group of inexperienced filmmakers (two Chileans, a Peruvian and an American) follows Barriga in order to know all that universe the musician and showman built after half a century of an artistic career, where irreverence and irony were standards in its form of creation.
- DirectorFarid Rodríguez Rivero
- DirectorFernando Valdivia Gomez
- DirectorFernando Vílchez RodríguezBy the sea, there is a destroyed village. In the village, there is a man trying to rest.
- DirectorRosario Garcia-MonteroStarsFatima BuntinxKaterina D'OnofrioMelchor GorrocháteguiA young girl convinces herself that she will die on the same day that her brother will be born.A young girl convinces herself that she will die on the same day that her brother will be born.
- DirectorFarid Rodríguez RiveroStarsRudy RodríguezYazmin Rodríguez
- DirectorErick ChaguaThis is the story of 5 little girls who reside in Lima, Peru and have a very special way of speaking Spanish. Carito is the leader, her father is Argentinean, Cayetana is the grand daughter of the Spain Ambassador to Lima, Raquie is Jewish Orthodox, Patty loves surfing and Humita is an indigenous girl whose father has made a fortune out of the grilled chicken business; they all go to St. Catherine's Elementary School. Bullying is one of the key issues of the movie as these four girls take advantage of their social status and bully Humita who happens to be from a foreign country and on top of than not precisely Roman Catholic or Jewish but Evangelical. In the end, Carito finds out the she suffers from Leukemia and from then on the film changes overnight and nothing will be the same. They are participating in this volleyball tournament and they also have a teen girl band. Carito is always the one who tells everyone what to do or what not to do, however, she is a very charismatic leader.
- DirectorEduardo Mendoza de EchaveStarsGiovanni CicciaAngela GutierrezTeddy GuzmánTrovador seeks to write an immortal bolero, but the inspiration does not reach him. In his way will cross the Gitana, a woman with whom he will begin a passionate romance that perhaps serves him to write his song.
- DirectorCora PeñaApash means, in the language of the Jivaros, 'outsiders'. This indomitable people that have inhabited the Amazon since some 1200 years ago, have been in conflict with the outsiders many times in their history, which, up until now has seen them neither annihilated nor reduced. Apash are the director of the documentary and Antonio Abreu, a veteran and eccentric Spanish adventurer who travel along the River Maranon, Jivaro region of the Peruvian Amazon. Both try, through the dialogue and mutual knowledge, to construct a documentary that helps the native communities in their struggle for survival as a people. This is a key moment in which the communities are in conflict with the industrial privatization and exploitation of the Amazon rainforest.
- DirectorJ. Claire OdlandFernando Valdivia GomezNancy FeldmanStarsBetsy Adelita Agustín SánchezFiccia AgustínHilda Amasifuén PicotaIn 1953, brilliant young anthropologist Harry Tschopik Jr. visited the Shipibo people of Peru's remote Upper Amazon to make a film called Men of the Montana. The Field Museum in Chicago discovered his beautiful color ethnography in the archives of the American Museum of Natural History, unseen for more than fifty years due to his early death. Its astounding images of ceremonial and daily life are a priceless cultural record for today's Shipibo. In July of 2010 the Field Museum to Tschopik's film back to the Shipibo Native Communities. In Shipibo...the Movie of our Memories, today's Shipibo elders, artists and students view the historic original film and voice the dramatic changes in their culture and their hopes for its future.
- DirectorJudith VélezDuring the 1980s, Abimael Guzman led Shining Path into being one of the most brutal terrorist groups of the 20th century. Over 20,000 people died. In April 1990, the Peruvian Secret Service assigns police officer Benedicto Jimenez to form a secret unit to capture Guzman. With limited resources; one car, four radios, two old desks, and a typewriter, Jimenez and his team overcome limitations to capture the most wanted Latin American terrorist in September 1992. The documentary has first time interviews with those involved in the capture of Guzman, it contains never before seen and recently de-classified photographic and video elements, and contains recreations of the events.
- DirectorHector ChavezStarsLos SaicosBetween 1964 and 1966, Los Saicos were the wildest and most original rock and roll band on the planet, but no one knew about it. Until now.
- DirectorRonnie TemocheStarsEvelyn AzabacheManuel BacaOscar BeltránPractically robbed of their proper names, the title characters of this film flee from their small town and from the epithets that they have chosen or, conversely, that have been imposed upon them. On their respective journeys, their morality, tenacity and integrity are tested, so much so that they succeed in defying the stigma of their names, or arduously succumbing to self-fulfilling prophecies.
- DirectorGastón VizcarraStarsGuillermo CastañedaStephanie OrúeDiego LombardiThe story of Alex, a humble police watchman who decides to take control of his luck. After his girlfriends breaks up with him, he decides to steal $ 80,000 and lead a life full of adventures , fulfilling all of his desires.
- DirectorAlfredo BejarStarsAngelo DundeeMauro Mina Jr.Ricardo DelgadoA narrative documentary about the life and times of the 1960s South American boxing legend Mauro Mina Baylón.
- DirectorChristian BuckleyFrank Pérez-GarlandStarsValeria Bringas
- DirectorCésar GalindoStarsNivardo CarilloGunilla RöörThere are only three ways out, by boat, by plane, or by Gringa.
- DirectorDaniel Vega VidalDiego Vega VidalStarsBruno OdarGabriela VelásquezCarlos GassolsClemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. They're brought together over a new-born baby, fruit of Clemente's relationship with a prostitute who's nowhere to be found. While Clemente is looking for the girl's mother, Sofía cares for the baby and looks after the moneylender's house. With the arrival of these beings in his life, Clemente has the opportunity to reconsider his emotional relations with people.Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. They're brought together over a new-born baby, fruit of Clemente's relationship with a prostitute who's nowhere to be found. While Clemente is looking for the girl's mother, Sofía cares for the baby and looks after the moneylender's house. With the arrival of these beings in his life, Clemente has the opportunity to reconsider his emotional relations with people.
- DirectorJosh HydeStarsGuimel Soria MartinezNadia AlexanderAlan Cuba"Postales" (Postcards) is a multicultural story of innocence and understanding despite the barriers of language, poverty, cultural confusion and a rapidly globalizing world. In the streets of Cusco, Peru, the lives of an American businessman and his family become irreversibly intertwined with those of a rural Peruvian family struggling day to day to survive. As the construction of a new hotel is finalized, both families are faced with the realities of our shifting world and the unexpected encounters that will change them forever.
- DirectorAugusto Tamayo San RománStarsTommy PárragaJaime ZevallosMiriam ReáteguiThe Vigil is a thriller film that tells the story of the relation established between two opposite characters that share an intense and strange night in today's Lima. Edgardo Chocano, a westernized Peruvian intellectual of upper class and a violent and instinctive girl of the lower class that is escaping the threat of a gang of criminals. It's main theme deals with the possibility of an understanding between this two contradicting characters.The story of the relation established between two opposite characters that share an intense and strange night in today's Lima. Edgardo Chocano, a westernized Peruvian intellectual of upper class and a violent and instinctive girl of the lower class that is escaping the threat of a gang of criminals. It's main theme deals with the possibility of an understanding between this two contradicting characters.
- DirectorFelipe DegregoriPeruvian anthropologist and painter Ediberto Jiménez visits the villages of the Chungui people of the Peruvian highlands. During the 1980s these people suffered tremendously at the hands of both Maoist guerrillas of the Sendero Luminoso movement as well as Peruvian counter insurgency forces. Interviewing survivors and painting pictures in the style of Guaman Poma a famed 17th century Peruvian chronicler and defender of the indigenous peoples, Jiménez gives voice to these people who feel both terribly victimized over the last 30 years and utterly forgotten.
- DirectorFelipe DegregoriDocumentary about trans-gender women in Latin America, focusing on Peru but with inclusion of women and experts from other countries.
- DirectorJuan Daniel F. MoleroWhat began as a means of recovering his temporary amnesia by watching his family's home movies, Molero explored the visual archive of his life, and it gradually evolved into an experimental found footage autobiography. He collages disparate footage from various formats-8mm, VHS, miniDV, HD, and a cell phone camera-ranging from his grandfather's 8mm films of a family outing at the river, which predates Molero himself, to universal scenes of growing up-the kindergarten classroom, the persistence of a boy learning how to skateboard-and footage he himself shot after his accident, in which he seeks out relatives in remote regions of Peru in the indigenous Quechua community. The singular vision with which Molero weaves a lyrical and visual narrative of his own history is both affecting and radical. Employing both celluloid and video textures, Molero uses the errant visual elements as metaphors for malfunctioning and wandering memory. Reminiscencias is a self-reflexive exploration that both questions and relies on these fragments to remind us of our memories, and to salvage forgotten scraps of time. This unique document of life in Peru is also a testament to the mediated, image-saturated lives of those born after the advent of home movies, and the uncanny and fragmented depictions that these informal documents portray of our lives.
- DirectorJavier Fuentes-LeónStarsCristian MercadoTatiana AstengoManolo CardonaAn unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
- DirectorEduardo SchuldtRobbie DaymondStarsRobbie DaymondGiovanni CicciaBrian W. RobertsThe amazing story of Daniel, a dolphin who abandons the safety of his pod to explore the ocean and discover the true purpose of his life.