Directing

Rafael Arévalo

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Rafael Arévalo has become one of the most prominent and important filmmakers of the so-called Peruvian Independent Cinema or New Peruvian Cinema in recent years. He is a graduate of the Charles Chaplin Institute of Communication Sciences. He owns his own production company, El Topo Producciones. He has directed the short films "Agonía," "El Paso del tiempo vade retro," "Capucha Negra," and "Pisco," which participated in the 5th Filmocorto 2011 Short Film Festival organized by the Film Archive of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. His feature films include his debut, "Alienados" (2008). In 2010, he released "Casa Okupada." In 2011, he made "Objetos," and in 2012, he presented "AM-FM.…

Known for

Behind the camera

Cinema infierno poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Cinema infierno

2019

Cinema infierno poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Cinema infierno

2019

Mensajes Subliminales poster
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A pair of young students make a report on subliminal messages by mixing their own material with mysterious recordings of other people to try to find a way to counteract them.

Mensajes Subliminales

2016

Generación Zapping poster
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A young woman, who lives locked up and only watches television, is unaware of a revolution that is taking place in the streets.

Generación Zapping

2023

La secuela del caos poster
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After a surprising global catastrophe, the last surviving human being searches for meaning in his life.

La secuela del caos

2023

Carpayo poster
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Short film with an ecological message made by Rafael Arévalo.

Carpayo

2014

Capucha Negra poster
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Black Hood is a teenage orphan with a mother who ignores her. The only person who loves her is her grandmother, but she has just moved deep into the urban forest. Black Hood decides to search for her, but gets lost and encounters mysterious characters who will lead her down a path of no return.

Capucha Negra

2006

Invasión Extraterrestre poster
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A manifesto that reflects on what an alien attack on Earth would be like.

Invasión Extraterrestre

2024

La vida adulta de las efímeras poster
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A powerful parallel between the short life of the mayflies and the patriarchal violence that affect women.

La vida adulta de las efímeras

2024

Sirena poster
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A young man wanders along the beach, imagining he is chasing a mermaid.

Sirena

2011

Kasa Okupada poster
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Another example of the peculiar B (or Z) movies.

Kasa Okupada

2010

Radio Minerva poster
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The story of a DJ who, despite obvious hardship, strives to help women with all kinds of problems through an internet radio program.

Radio Minerva

2013

Animal Definitivo poster
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An experimental manifesto made with archival material from various films about wild humans, reflecting on the human condition and our animal origins.

Animal Definitivo

2021

Sin resplandor poster
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Rafael Arévalo's film.

Sin resplandor

2007

Aliena2: La secuela poster
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A film buff gets a copy of a mysterious Peruvian independent film called "Alienated" and becomes convinced that what happens to the characters in the plot is what is happening to him in real life.

Aliena2: La secuela

2017

Guerrilla Gore poster
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A group of subversive filmmakers record themselves while kidnapping other filmmakers as revenge for having distorted their favorite genre: the mockumentary.

Guerrilla Gore

2017

Errante Aberrante poster
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After interpreting a strange dream as a revelation, a 30-year-old man (Santiago) decides to leave behind all his acquaintances and abandon everything that is part of his life to start from scratch with the idea that, if he lets himself go, destiny will guide him to become the person he always wanted to be.

Errante Aberrante

2011

AM/FM poster
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Two young people trapped in silence. A band suffering from the corruption of their music. A fan willing to do anything for her idols. A music lover unable to connect with society. Four stories of people linked to music, as bizarre as they are different, but all moving on the same frequency.

AM/FM

2012

Pisco poster
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The editor of a literary magazine meets a depressed poet who writes beautiful verses to his girlfriend, who disappeared at sea, while drinking pisco. She convinces him to publish his work, but a codependent relationship develops between them, with tragic consequences.

Pisco

2010

Marx Bros Go to Hell poster
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A short film by Rafael Arevalo.

Marx Bros Go to Hell

2021

La Enfermedad del Sueño poster
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A writer who suffers from narcolepsy courts a girl despite the fact that this causes him all sorts of inconveniences by having to be exposed to the outside world for a long time.

La Enfermedad del Sueño

2016

Los Amigos de Antes poster
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Rafael Arévalo's film.

Los Amigos de Antes

2008

Más allá de la barrera del sonido poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Más allá de la barrera del sonido

2018

Video testamento poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Video testamento

2025

Consecuencia poster
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A violent man cannot enter his house and threatens his partner through the peephole of the door to open him.

Consecuencia

2020

Detrás de Cámaras poster
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A young actress wakes up after a night of partying with no memory of what happened. Her best friend has disappeared, but everyone tells her otherwise. As she tries to find an explanation, she begins to feel watched wherever she goes.

Detrás de Cámaras

2014

Year of the Apocalypse poster
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12 short stories, month after month, shows the evolution of a mysterious and terrible virus that makes the dead rise to devour the living.

Year of the Apocalypse

2016

Year of the Apocalypse poster
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12 short stories, month after month, shows the evolution of a mysterious and terrible virus that makes the dead rise to devour the living.

Year of the Apocalypse

2016

Year of the Apocalypse poster
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12 short stories, month after month, shows the evolution of a mysterious and terrible virus that makes the dead rise to devour the living.

Year of the Apocalypse

2016

Vida o muerte poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Vida o muerte

2019

Alienados poster
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A group of young UFO fanatics fall prey to collective hysteria and begin to lose their minds as they become convinced that an alien invasion is taking place without the rest of the population seeming to notice.

Alienados

2008

Mundo cruel poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Mundo cruel

2025

Biopic poster
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The debut film of a young and eccentric filmmaker, Piero Ventura, becomes the worst feature film of all time, as everyone who sees it detests it. After accepting a bet, he allows his best friend to film him for a month to make a documentary about his attempt to find someone who likes his film, hoping to redeem himself.

Biopic

2012

Flujo de Energía poster
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A girl's life changes after being struck by lightning.

Flujo de Energía

2016

La precuela del caos poster
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After the third world war, only 1% of the population will survive. Most will have become mutants, but a few humans will be immune to everything.

La precuela del caos

2014

Basado en un caso de la vida surreal poster
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A girl suffering from sleep paralysis and night hallucinations will try to rid herself of her mysterious curse.

Basado en un caso de la vida surreal

2017

Menos es Más poster
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A short film by Rafael Arevalo.

Menos es Más

2020

Objetos poster
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A quena flute whose melody mesmerizes all who hear it; a tumi drum that inspires one to seek independence and another to sacrifice oneself; a quero drum that allows one to hallucinate anything, for better or for worse; an ekeko figurine that grants all kinds of wishes, but at exorbitant prices; four objects of indescribable value and a collector who desires them all. Five stories about manipulation and the deepest desires of humankind.

Objetos

2011

¿Somos libres? poster
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A short film by Rafael Arevalo.

¿Somos libres?

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La Resolución de Descartes poster
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A mobster forces two desperate men to play Russian roulette to give the winner a chance at life.

La Resolución de Descartes

2016