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It is a documentary that shows the work of film workers in the different areas of distribution and exhibition that allow films to reach viewers. In addition, it testifies to the preferences of the cinematographic public in the years of 1983.
A shy boy of humble origins, during his first day of school, must endure the mistreatment and humiliation of another boy, son of his mother's employers.
President Fujimori's government is on its way out, and the citizens of Peru are struggling to get by, often engaging in unscrupulous means to get ahead--or just to make a buck. Rafo is a struggling filmmaker who supports his girlfriend Laura. He encounters a Spanish con artist posing as an executive for a major phone company, the Spaniard draws Rafo into an elaborate scam.
A meditation on violence and its recurrence in time. It shows circumstances that make vagrants unable to make their life better. They try to survive, albeit not sheltered correctly.
It presents the struggle of the first unionized workers, after a strike for the implantation of the eight-hour day and the union right, in the sugar valleys of Peru. It is the story of the first union in the city of Trujillo, organized in 1921.
Short film about Martín Adán (pseudonym of Rafael de la Fuente Benavides, Lima, 1908) one of the great contemporary poets in the Spanish language and the settings of his poetry
This powerful political drama follows the adventures and escapades of "La Gringa", a likeable criminal capable of escaping from any jail. When he escapes from one with the help of an imprisoned intellectual, "La Gringa", returns in disguise to help pay back the favor but finds himself caught in a prison riot.
A conversation with Enrique Cornejo Villanueva, the director of the 1927 feature film Luis Pardo. In this interview, he reflects on the filmmaking process and shares scenes from this silent film.
After spending ten years in prison accused of terrorism, Milagros is found not guilty and is released. During her detention, she was raped and became pregnant. Noemi, now a ten year old girl, believes her mother has been working abroad all this time. The film begins the day both meet.
The last few months in the life of María Elena Moyano, who was killed at the age of 33 by the Peruvian revolutionary movement Sendero Luminoso.
A look at the ceramics of the ancient Peruvians and cinema today.
The world of fighting roosters and cockfighters in the coliseums of the city of Lima.
The struggle for survival of the Aguaruna people, native to the Peruvian Amazon. The progressive impoverishment they suffer due to the transformations in their traditional way of life, following the incursion of modern society into their territory. Their conflicts with a North American company.
A humble rural teacher travels to Lima to collect his lottery winnings and meet the son he has not seen in years. No one could predict how this would permanently change their lives.
