Héctor Gálvez

Directing

Héctor Gálvez

Known for

Directing

Credits

22 titles

Screenwriter and film director. His films have been shown at festivals such as Venice, Rotterdam, Toulouse, BAFICI, Cartagena, IDFA. Co-scriptwriter of the film “Retablo”, premiered at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival and finalist at the Independent Spirit Award, as well as winner of the BAFTA award for best foreign film. She has also dabbled in theater, writing and directing “La hija de Marcial.”

Known for

Classroom 8 poster
NR

From his modest apartment in Lima, a teacher gives virtual classes, seeking to reflect with his young students with low socio-economic backgrounds on racism, politics and inequality: issues that resonate in an increasingly fractured country.

Classroom 8

2023

Pacificum: Return to the Ocean poster
4.9

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

Pacificum: Return to the Ocean

2017

NN poster
7.3

The remains of a male body that disappeared during the years of political violence have been exhumed, but nobody claims them. Now the only clue to his identify is the picture of a smiling girl found in his shirt pocket. Only a blurred photograph, a snapshot of a time and a memory…

NN

2014

Retablo poster
7.4

Segundo sees silence as his only option for dealing with his father Noé’s secret. The 14-year-old lives with his parents in a village high up in the mountains. Noé is a respected artisan and Segundo’s role model. With loving eye for detail, he artfully crafts altarpieces for church and homes, and is preparing his son to follow in his footsteps. But cracks form in their tight bond.

Retablo

2018

Chicama poster
5.7

Chicama tells the story of César a recent graduate of a teacher's college who has a hard time getting a job, so he accepts a position in a rural school in small mountain town.

Chicama

2013

Lucanamarca poster
5.0

Santiago de Lucanamarca, a remote farming community in the Peruvian Andes, is shaken by the presence of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. They have come to open the tombs of the 69 people who died in the massacre of April 3, 1983. Twenty years later there is a chance to close old wounds, but distrust can also be felt in the streets of the town. Aren't we all Peruvians? asks one of the people affected. The history of Lucanamarca shows us how elusive justice can be.

Lucanamarca

2008

Behind the camera

Classroom 8 poster
NR

From his modest apartment in Lima, a teacher gives virtual classes, seeking to reflect with his young students with low socio-economic backgrounds on racism, politics and inequality: issues that resonate in an increasingly fractured country.

Classroom 8

2023

Pacificum: Return to the Ocean poster
4.9

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

Pacificum: Return to the Ocean

2017

NN poster
7.3

The remains of a male body that disappeared during the years of political violence have been exhumed, but nobody claims them. Now the only clue to his identify is the picture of a smiling girl found in his shirt pocket. Only a blurred photograph, a snapshot of a time and a memory…

NN

2014

NN poster
7.3

The remains of a male body that disappeared during the years of political violence have been exhumed, but nobody claims them. Now the only clue to his identify is the picture of a smiling girl found in his shirt pocket. Only a blurred photograph, a snapshot of a time and a memory…

NN

2014

Retablo poster
7.4

Segundo sees silence as his only option for dealing with his father Noé’s secret. The 14-year-old lives with his parents in a village high up in the mountains. Noé is a respected artisan and Segundo’s role model. With loving eye for detail, he artfully crafts altarpieces for church and homes, and is preparing his son to follow in his footsteps. But cracks form in their tight bond.

Retablo

2018

Chicama poster
5.7

Chicama tells the story of César a recent graduate of a teacher's college who has a hard time getting a job, so he accepts a position in a rural school in small mountain town.

Chicama

2013

Lucanamarca poster
5.0

Santiago de Lucanamarca, a remote farming community in the Peruvian Andes, is shaken by the presence of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. They have come to open the tombs of the 69 people who died in the massacre of April 3, 1983. Twenty years later there is a chance to close old wounds, but distrust can also be felt in the streets of the town. Aren't we all Peruvians? asks one of the people affected. The history of Lucanamarca shows us how elusive justice can be.

Lucanamarca

2008

Ramón and Ramón poster
6.8

During the COVID-19 lockdown in Lima, Ramón, a gay man in his thirties, receives the ashes of his estranged father. Unable to hold a funeral, he sets out to return the remains to his father’s native village of Mito. Along the way, he meets Mateo, a striking traveler grounded by the pandemic. Despite curfews, masks, and distancing, an unexpected bond forms. They dance, laugh, and grow attuned to each other’s presence, their closeness charged with quiet intimacy and unspoken possibility. As they journey into the Andean highlands, Ramón is drawn not only to Mateo but also to a deeper confrontation with grief, memory, and the hope of healing.

Ramón and Ramón

2025

Paraiso poster
7.3

A group of friends walk across the sandy outskirts of Lima in order to pay their respects to a fallen gang member.

Paraiso

2009

Paraiso poster
7.3

A group of friends walk across the sandy outskirts of Lima in order to pay their respects to a fallen gang member.

Paraiso

2009

No artwork available
NR

mockery of the commercials produced by the Ministry of the Presidency.

Los Muertitos

2000

El Colchonero poster
NR

Two friends, 13 or 14 years old, spend their afternoons playing soccer in their neighborhood and always see a man arriving with prostitutes at an abandoned house next door. The story then revolves around what these boys try to do to observe what this man does with his companions.

El Colchonero

1999

Ofrenda poster
NR

A man receives an unexpected gift that will be the first step in fulfilling a promise.

Ofrenda

2016

I'll wait until they call my name poster
NR

A theatrical work that talks about the disappeared in the years of political violence in Peru, is taken to present Andean communities. In each place of presentation, the fiction will be confronted with reality.

I'll wait until they call my name

2021

I'll wait until they call my name poster
NR

A theatrical work that talks about the disappeared in the years of political violence in Peru, is taken to present Andean communities. In each place of presentation, the fiction will be confronted with reality.

I'll wait until they call my name

2021

Taxistas poster
NR

Short film that satirizes the electoral campaign of the then president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, for his third consecutive government.

Taxistas

2000

Purús-Manu: Latidos de la selva poster
NR

Traveling through the breathtaking landscape of the Purús River, located in the far north of the Ucayali department, we find 45 communities from 13 different ethnic groups living along its banks in close and daily connection with the river and with nature. Guided by Alfredo del Águila, a 45-year-old Sharanahua indigenous man and leader of the Santa Margarita community, we journey through his stories, anecdotes, and encounters with other people, such as the Shipibo and Yine park rangers at the border checkpoint on the Tahuamanu River, who are responsible for protecting one of the territorial reserves where uncontacted people live freely.

Purús-Manu: Latidos de la selva

2014

Escenas de Caza poster
NR

A boy who is leaving his parents' house decides to leave them with a good memory before he goes.

Escenas de Caza

2002

¡Cállate niña! (Upallay Wawa) poster
NR

A day in the life of a young girl from an Andean community in Peru who is burdened with adult responsibilities: caring for her younger siblings, milking the cows and tending the corrals, doing housework, and fetching water from the spring. Several things get out of hand, and punishment ensues.

¡Cállate niña! (Upallay Wawa)

1999

How to live with...? poster
NR

Luisa is diagnosed with HIV. The fear of revealing this to her family and drives her to emigrate, but just as she begins to adapt to her new city, her plans change and she must return to her country. The film offers a contemporary look at HIV, providing an intimate portrait of relationships, family and the quest for identity.

How to live with...?

2026

No artwork available
NR

Report on a neighborhood circus.

Circo de Arena

1999

No artwork available
NR

Short film.

Fotos de Familia

2007