Directing
Rafael Arévalo
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Directing
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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.…
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NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cinema infierno
2019
NRA 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
NRA 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
NRAfter a surprising global catastrophe, the last surviving human being searches for meaning in his life.
La secuela del caos
2023
NRShort film with an ecological message made by Rafael Arévalo.
Carpayo
2014
NRBlack 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
Behind the camera
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cinema infierno
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cinema infierno
2019
NRA 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
NRA 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
NRAfter a surprising global catastrophe, the last surviving human being searches for meaning in his life.
La secuela del caos
2023
NRShort film with an ecological message made by Rafael Arévalo.
Carpayo
2014
NRBlack 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
NRA manifesto that reflects on what an alien attack on Earth would be like.
Invasión Extraterrestre
2024
NRA powerful parallel between the short life of the mayflies and the patriarchal violence that affect women.
La vida adulta de las efímeras
2024
NRA young man wanders along the beach, imagining he is chasing a mermaid.
Sirena
2011
NRAnother example of the peculiar B (or Z) movies.
Kasa Okupada
2010
NRThe 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
NRAn experimental manifesto made with archival material from various films about wild humans, reflecting on the human condition and our animal origins.
Animal Definitivo
2021
NRRafael Arévalo's film.
Sin resplandor
2007
NRA 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
NRA group of subversive filmmakers record themselves while kidnapping other filmmakers as revenge for having distorted their favorite genre: the mockumentary.
Guerrilla Gore
2017
NRAfter 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
NRTwo 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
NRThe 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
NRA short film by Rafael Arevalo.
Marx Bros Go to Hell
2021
NRA 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
NRRafael Arévalo's film.
Los Amigos de Antes
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Más allá de la barrera del sonido
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Video testamento
2025
NRA violent man cannot enter his house and threatens his partner through the peephole of the door to open him.
Consecuencia
2020
NRA 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
NR12 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
NR12 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
NR12 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Vida o muerte
2019
NRA 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mundo cruel
2025
NRThe 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
NRA girl's life changes after being struck by lightning.
Flujo de Energía
2016
NRAfter 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
NRA 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
NRA short film by Rafael Arevalo.
Menos es Más
2020
NRA 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
NRA short film by Rafael Arevalo.
¿Somos libres?
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NRA mobster forces two desperate men to play Russian roulette to give the winner a chance at life.
La Resolución de Descartes
2016
