Peru

Three stories. A middle-aged man remembering his childhood, a couple living in a ghostly world, and a parody of filmmaking.

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 ...

"Cucharita" or Miguel Martínez, is an acrobat and popular musician, who tours restaurants delighting the public with an unusual instrument: a pair of spoons. Behind the few coins that ...

An Inca curaca has a vision of the arrival of a child. Fishermen find a white baby floating in acbasket in the sea, a harbinger of the arrival of the conquerors.

Angela Ramos, the first woman journalist, irreverent and passionate figure in Peruvian intellectual and political life. She is a key figure in understanding the role of women in the ...

A sixty-year-old woman fights to survive and rescue her youthful dreams, bringing a circus show to the marginal towns of Peru… despite the bad conditions that entails.

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 ...

Documentary short film. It is a portrait of a day in the life of the center of a big city. What Lima was like more than 30 years ago, we are sure will allow us to get to know it, ...

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

A meditation on violence and its recurrence in time. It shows circumstances that make vagrants unable to make their life better. They try to survive, albeit not sheltered correctly.

The community of Maras in Cusco extracts natural salt from a complex of pools. According to legend, the salt flat was formed by the tears of the Inca Ayar Cachi who was buried by his ...

Documentary that refers us to one of the most important characters in Peruvian culture: José Carlos Mariátegui. The figure of the Peruvian intellectual and politician is remembered and ...

Documentary presenting the theory and application of the Theology of Liberation via interviews to priests from humble parishes in the slums of Lima. A fruitful labor of a Catholic ...

Chicha band Los Shapis migrate from Huancayo to Lima and have to deal with the prejudices against provincial people and their music.

Lucifer and Derrepente, are danzaqs (dancers) of Tijeras from Huancavelica, who perform an Atipanakuy (competition).

In an abandoned glass factory, a woman exploits her workers, all of them mentally ill. A gang of young assailants decides to rob said factory, but in order to achieve that, they must ...

A critical account is given of the two stages of the military government of the seventies: Between General Velasco Alvarado and General Morales Bermudez. Based on photographic, graphic, ...

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

Gaston Aramayo and Victoria de Aramayo show their art and craft as puppeteers with the Kusi Kusi group.

A tax collector, who manages to convince the distrustful inhabitants of a populous neighborhood of the city about the importance of paying taxes in order to contribute to the progress ...

Short film about street soccer players on the eve of the 1982 Peru-Uruguay match

In this Peruvian look at the beginning of the 20th century in Lima, the life of a fictitious leftist labor organizer Vicente Orozco (Humberto Cavero) is traced back to 1900 to ...

María Reiche studied for more than four decades the "largest calendar in the world", located between Nasca and Palpa, and made up of the famous geoglyphs.