
Directing
César Galindo
Place of birth
Ayacucho, Peru
Known for
Directing
Credits
28 titles
He was born in the Ayacucho city of Puquio. He grew up between Cuzco and Lima, in the latter city he trained as an architect. Years later, in Paris and Stockholm he developed his path as a filmmaker, first exploring the documentary language and then entering fiction, always with themes related to the Andean world. During his stay in Paris, Galindo studied film and, later, worked as a sound engineer.1 There he met people like Gabriel García Márquez and Fernando Botero. In addition, he worked on the filming of the film La Truite (1982) by director Joseph Losey. Participation in this production contributed to his training as a filmmaker.
Known for
Short film.
Water
1997
Pachamama is a modern interpretation of the earth, the human body as a metaphor for the earth.
Mother Earth
2004
About a city and how it changes when different cultures don't clash but come together. We meet Patricia, who goes to night school; Max, a painter; Oscar, who drives a taxi and dances tango; Jaana, who only goes out partying; and many more.
Stockholmstango
1995
Short documentary.
Levande sand
1987
7.5There are only three ways out, by boat, by plane, or by Gringa. Manuel (Nirvado Carillo) is a destitute farmhand from the Andes with little hopes for the future. Armed with a manual on how to charm a Gringa, he hopes to get a new start.
Gringa
2010
6.2Sistu and her small community in the Andes discover the magic of cinema. This meeting causes a stir but also confronts them with their culture and highlights the limitations of the community to understand and read Spanish. As a solution, they choose Sistu so that every week he goes to town to see a movie and tells it to everyone in the square.
Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village
2022
Behind the camera
Short film.
Water
1997
Pachamama is a modern interpretation of the earth, the human body as a metaphor for the earth.
Mother Earth
2004
Pachamama is a modern interpretation of the earth, the human body as a metaphor for the earth.
Mother Earth
2004
About a city and how it changes when different cultures don't clash but come together. We meet Patricia, who goes to night school; Max, a painter; Oscar, who drives a taxi and dances tango; Jaana, who only goes out partying; and many more.
Stockholmstango
1995
Short documentary.
Levande sand
1987
7.5There are only three ways out, by boat, by plane, or by Gringa. Manuel (Nirvado Carillo) is a destitute farmhand from the Andes with little hopes for the future. Armed with a manual on how to charm a Gringa, he hopes to get a new start.
Gringa
2010
6.2Sistu and her small community in the Andes discover the magic of cinema. This meeting causes a stir but also confronts them with their culture and highlights the limitations of the community to understand and read Spanish. As a solution, they choose Sistu so that every week he goes to town to see a movie and tells it to everyone in the square.
Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village
2022
6.2Sistu and her small community in the Andes discover the magic of cinema. This meeting causes a stir but also confronts them with their culture and highlights the limitations of the community to understand and read Spanish. As a solution, they choose Sistu so that every week he goes to town to see a movie and tells it to everyone in the square.
Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village
2022
Short film.
Bésame mucho
1996
NRThe Matusita house has been abandoned in the center of Lima for 50 years. A haunted house where all Lima's accidents are said to be housed. Some upper-class people around a dinner table bet, the loser has to spend the night in Matusita. It will be a meeting with the sorrows and dreams of the Peruvian people.
The Matusita House
1990
Short film.
I
1994
NRThe famous Peruvian singer Luis Abanto Morales sings Cholo Soy while Cesar Galindo gives justice to indigenous Peruvians in a condensed cinematic sequence of documentary and fictional scenes.
Cholo Soy
1992
Documentary depicting a group of different people and their lives in Stockholm under different conditions and through all seasons.
Stockholmania
1998
10.0Against the celebration, in 1992, of the 500 years of the so-called "Discovery of America." Short that claims our language and culture.
Five Minutes for the Souls of America
1992
10.0Against the celebration, in 1992, of the 500 years of the so-called "Discovery of America." Short that claims our language and culture.
Five Minutes for the Souls of America
1992
10.0Against the celebration, in 1992, of the 500 years of the so-called "Discovery of America." Short that claims our language and culture.
Five Minutes for the Souls of America
1992
Film by Cesar Galindo.
Puquio – La vuelta a la semilla
1999
Film by Cesar Galindo.
Cuando las grullas se reúnen con los cóndores
2005
FIlm by Cesar Galindo.
La tierra es nuestra vida
2010
Film by Cesar Galindo.
Uratarimanta – Esto es democracia para nosotros
2005
Flm by Cesar Galindo.
La canción de la vida
2005
Film by Cesar Galindo.
¿Quién es Contucio Cerebris?
2002
Short fiction.
Ett ljus i mörkret
2004
Inspired by "el aini," a tradition of collective work in the Peruvian Andes, the "Los Andes" savings and credit cooperative was founded in 2001 in the small town of Cotarusi. This cooperative was created for rural communities who had never before had access to credit. They started with 100 members and today have more than 60,000. The cooperative that organized the 2013 Señor de Ánimas festival in Chalhuanca successfully combined cooperativism, festivity, and tradition into one of the most popular and spectacular festivals in recent years. It represents a new way of conceiving economic development and a response from impoverished communities to the economic crisis.
El Señor de los Andes
2014
Cosimo, a young musician, has left his old neighborhood and is moving to a new life, located under the bridge of Danvikstull. Un rincón de la ciudad, part cathedral, part fantasy and rock'n roll. El estado de las cosas es bizarro e unreal.
Kungen av Danvikstull
1992
Short documentary.
För gulds skull
1989
4.013 year-old Killari, is chosen by the Spirit of tutelary gods as a scissors dancer. Her mother, Agucha, opposes because she lost her husband, Pacha, in a duel with Lucifer and couldn’t tell him about her pregnancy, a guilt she carries all her life. She hides Pacha’s death from Killari. Remigio, her grandfather, silent from grief, finds hope in Killari’s dance interest. He decides to teach her the secrets of scissors dancing to defeat Lucifer and uphold the family legacy.
The Daughter of the Moon
2026
4.013 year-old Killari, is chosen by the Spirit of tutelary gods as a scissors dancer. Her mother, Agucha, opposes because she lost her husband, Pacha, in a duel with Lucifer and couldn’t tell him about her pregnancy, a guilt she carries all her life. She hides Pacha’s death from Killari. Remigio, her grandfather, silent from grief, finds hope in Killari’s dance interest. He decides to teach her the secrets of scissors dancing to defeat Lucifer and uphold the family legacy.
The Daughter of the Moon
2026
