Gianfranco Annichini

Four stories taking place in Lima, Peru in the 70s.

An experimental poetic work. Two perspectives, two Super 8 cameras reveal the home, the humanity, and the passion for cinema of one of the masters of Peruvian film: Gianfranco Annichini. A diptych that ultimately becomes an open work…

A documentary short about a town floating on a river in Iquitos, Peru.

It's 1943. Santiago, a young mathematician, travels through the Peruvian desert with an aging supporter of Nazi ideology and a driver with a sordid past. An unusual journey that will change his perspective on life.

It parodies the name of the famous series Miami Vice, this time to register Peruvians living in the U.S.

The random life and tragic death of Piter Eustaquio Rengifo Uculmana, reconstructed as a puzzle that gathers the acts, loves, crimes and sins of a man without more merit than that of bearing a name whose acrostic composes the word PERU.

Feature film that shows us the festivities of the Virgen del Carmen in the Colca Valley, through the oral traditions narrated by the inhabitants of the Colca Valley, it shows religious syncretism and how the Spanish implanted their culture and in particular the Catholic religion; Well, this was the justification for the conquest. The evangelization campaigns aimed to destroy the indigenous imagination and convert all indigenous people to the Christian religion.

Juan, a young man convicted of terrorism, is given amnesty from a Lima prison; he boards a bus to return home and, in his mind's eye, recalls events in his village near Huaraz when he was 10 or 12. His father is long dead, his mother lives with Fermin, secretly a sympathizer with the Communist guerrillas in the hills. Town leaders are assassinated at night. When Juan discovers Fermin's secret, Juan is spirited away to the guerrillas to learn Marxist slogans and how to fight. When the band decides to attack the town to avenge the death of a comrade, Juan must choose.

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.

Photography as a chemical memory that forever captures an expression. In photography, time is imprisoned, and the illusory human dream of stopping it is realized.

Delfor Vargas, son of one of the photographers, protagonists of this film, introduces us to the artistic world of the famous Arequipa photographers of the 20th century: the Vargas brothers.

The life of Joao Aragao dedicated to music, performance and the dissemination of jazz in Peru.

Juan Torres lives in an isolated house in the shore of an Amazonian river. With a wisdom learnt from life itself, from nature itself he tells us his story.

In the autumn of a life that has treated him very badly, Rogerio Rázuri, an old Lima boxer, merchant marine, film actor, and debt collector for a film production company, writes to a New York marriage agency in order to ask for a millionaire wife who can finance his invention: water skis "to walk on the water as if he were Jesus Christ" and with it earn a lot of money and thus achieve a more dignified life.

Around Taquile Island in Puno and the iconography of its textiles

A portrait of the scientist Pedro Paulet (1874-1945), from the memory of his daughter

Chicama, a traditional fishing place, abandoned this activity in 1955 to live off the import of sugar, then the export of saltpeter in 1969, until the pier where all these activities were carried out was closed and they returned to their traditional work of fishing.

A drunkard carrying a mysterious suitcase ends up on an abandoned boat. There he encounters a strange character with a scar on his face who submits him to a terrible moral interrogation and discovers his true identity and the sin he kept so carefully.