1986, Peru. Too is an amateur singer, but above all, he is an impersonator of acclaimed salsa singer Héctor Lavoe. Too has spent his entire life trying to meet his idol, he is very devoted to him and strongly believes that his songs were written for him. One day, Héctor Lavoe travels to Peru and Too is about to make the impossible happen; he will meet him and finally break h...
Shot over five years, Into the Storm chronicles a scrappy Peruvian teenager who taught himself to surf with a broken board he found on the beach, and earns a spot at former World Champion Sofía Mulánovich’s surfing school. Reminiscent of Hoop Dreams, Into the Storm navigates the trials and struggles of Jhonny Guerrero as he hopes to lift himself and his family out of poverty by...
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 a...
BEARTREK is a conservation story wrapped in an adventure. Follow adventurer and renowned biologist Chris Morgan on an epic and entertaining journey to find the world's most elusive and endangered bears. Discover the threats facing them in the wild, meet the dedicated people racing to save them from extinction, and join the campaign to protect bears and their habitat.
Four scientists provide sweeping and intime narration of majestic coast of Peru from land, air and sea.
Based upon real testimonies, this hybrid film tells the story of Tania, a teenage girl forced into prostitution in the gold mining regions of Peru. Tania remembers how she was taken from her home lured with false promises of wealth and riches and how she slowly lost her identity in the process, changing her life forever. While sharing her story with a police officer, Tania's vo...
A foreign mining company digs up the Peruvian jungle in a search for gold, without asking the natives for permission. Violence breeds counter-violence. The filmmaker follows the trail of violence. (Berlinale 2014)
While taking a road trip in their last attempt to fix their marriage, Carlos and Ofelia encounter a young mirror image of what they used to be.
Daniel Jacoby’s latest film is an atmospheric portrait of Christian, a young man from the city who finds himself an outsider in his new home, a poor village called Cocachimba in the jungle of Peru. Fragments from colourful Cubist paintings playfully interrupt the image while the camera shows nature in ever-flowing motion. Sitting on a rock, Christian philosophises about his new...
5 young guys take a journey to peruvian jungle to find out a city old gold missing.
"Moon heart" is the story of M: an old woman who lives adrift: a lonely shadow that crosses her own geography every day. She spends her days dreaming about her past, until one day she finds something very similar to her: an ant. And what does a person do when they find an ant You crush it with your finger, you blow it away. Instead, M decides to share her world with it. A worl...
A family longs to be on a TV show which does an in-depth expose of a different real-life family every week. When they are finally selected they decide to change their lives completely so that the audience sees them as they want to be seen, not as they really are. This a small peruvian film and one can see that just by checking out the locations. However it works perfect, as it ...
Two women struggling with anger issues join forces to defeat an eccentric surgeon who endangers their lives, in this hilarious, comedy-filled romp.
