Jorge Vignati

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.

In the remote Andean highlands of Peru, a tight-knit indigenous peasant community has endured generations of brutal exploitation by local landowners. When a shocking act of violence exposes the complete failure of the official justice system to protect them, the villagers’ simmering anger pushes them toward a crossroads.

A fundamental person for Peruvian cinema, Jorge Vignati Ojeda, tells us about his beginnings in the cinematographic world, in a meaningful interview conducted in his own style: hand-held camera and sequence shot. With him we tour the Plaza de Armas of his native Cusco, while we listen to his beginnings as an outstanding student of the university of life

Portrait of a young boy from the Cocama Native Community of Iquitos, who makes a living playing the violin at funerals.

Capture, homage and release of the condor in a ritual of Andean peasants, who consider this gigantic and majestic bird as a deity.

Capture, homage and release of the condor in a ritual of Andean peasants, who consider this gigantic and majestic bird as a deity.

History of the Loreto city, the destruction of its monumental architecture from the rubber era and the loss of Amazonian culture.

Review of what “Huando” (Lima) was doing, before and after the Agrarian Reform (1969) carried out by the military government of General Juan Alvarado. Images of the hacienda considered in its time as an organization model, due to its productivity and efficiency.

Review of what “Huando” (Lima) was doing, before and after the Agrarian Reform (1969) carried out by the military government of General Juan Alvarado. Images of the hacienda considered in its time as an organization model, due to its productivity and efficiency.

About the Amazon Song Festival III Fica 1983.

The department of Loreto, the largest in Peru, has customs and original ways of life determined by the presence of the Amazon, an immense river that looks like a sea.

A Quechua and Christian peasant festival in the town of Ocongate, featuring purification in the snows of Mount Ausangate and before a crucifix. The film is spoken in Quechua and Spanish.