César Galindo
Directing
Biography
He was born in the Ayacucho city of Puquio. He grew up between Cuzco and Lima, in the latter city he trained as an architect. Years later, in Paris and Stockholm he developed his path as a filmmaker, first exploring the documentary language and then entering fiction, always with themes related to the Andean world. During his stay in Paris, Galindo studied film and, later, worked as a sound engineer.1 There he met people like Gabriel García Márquez and Fernando Botero. In addition, he worked on the filming of the film La Truite (1982) by director Joseph Losey. Participation in this production contributed to his training as a filmmaker.
Known For
Sistu and her small community in the Andes discover the magic of cinema. This meeting causes a stir but also confronts them with their culture and highlights the limitations of the community to understand and read Spanish. As a solution, they choose Sistu so that every week he goes to town to see a movie and tells it to everyone in the square.
Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village
Pachamama is a modern interpretation of the earth, the human body as a metaphor for the earth.
Mother Earth
Documentary depicting a group of different people and their lives in Stockholm under different conditions and through all seasons.
Stockholmania
There are only three ways out, by boat, by plane, or by Gringa. Manuel (Nirvado Carillo) is a destitute farmhand from the Andes with little hopes for the future. Armed with a manual on how to charm a Gringa, he hopes to get a new start.
Gringa
13 year-old Killari, is chosen by the Spirit of tutelary gods as a scissors dancer. Her mother, Agucha, opposes because she lost her husband, Pacha, in a duel with Lucifer and couldn’t tell him about her pregnancy, a guilt she carries all her life. She hides Pacha’s death from Killari. Remigio, her grandfather, silent from grief, finds hope in Killari’s dance interest. He decides to teach her the secrets of scissors dancing to defeat Lucifer and uphold the family legacy.
The Daughter of the Moon
Against the celebration, in 1992, of the 500 years of the so-called "Discovery of America." Short that claims our language and culture.
Five Minutes for the Souls of America
The famous Peruvian singer Luis Abanto Morales sings Cholo Soy while Cesar Galindo gives justice to indigenous Peruvians in a condensed cinematic sequence of documentary and fictional scenes.
Cholo Soy
The Matusita house has been abandoned in the center of Lima for 50 years. A haunted house where all Lima's accidents are said to be housed. Some upper-class people around a dinner table bet, the loser has to spend the night in Matusita. It will be a meeting with the sorrows and dreams of the Peruvian people.