Gianfranco Annichini

Juan, a young man convicted of terrorism, is given amnesty from a Lima prison; he boards a bus to return home and, in his mind's eye, recalls events in his village near Huaraz when he was 10 or 12. His father is long dead, his mother lives with Fermin, secretly a sympathizer with the Communist guerrillas in the hills. Town leaders are assassinated at night. When Juan discovers Fermin's secret, Juan is spirited away to the guerrillas to learn Marxist slogans and how to fight. When the band decides to attack the town to avenge the death of a comrade, Juan must choose.

Four angry cadets have formed an inner circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy, set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder.

Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. They're brought together over a new-born baby, fruit of Clemente's relationship with a prostitute who's nowhere to be found. While Clemente is looking for the girl's mother, Sofía cares for the baby and looks after the moneylender's house. With the arrival of these beings in his life, Clemente has the opportunity to reconsider his emotional relations with people

Four stories taking place in Lima, Peru in the 70s.

Marvin, an actor in cheap television commercials, is secretly in love with the beautiful Jenny and attributes his rejection to his very short stature. Depressed, he wanders through a park where a Harlequin encourages him to take control of his destiny with a magic pill.

Constantino Zegarra is a principled Peruvian government official who stands apart from his corrupt colleagues. Throughout his two-decade career, he has steadfastly resisted corruption, driven by the memory of his father's impoverished end due to corruption. At forty, he is a dedicated family man with a teenage daughter who challenges his views. One morning, he survives a gunshot to the throat, rendering him mute. Upon recovery, he is certain that someone from his office attempted to kill him.

Fishing businessman Luis Barletto is in trouble with the nationalist government, mysterious vehicles follow him. Meanwhile in Chaclacayo a gardener looks after his country house. His son José is a poor, shy and ugly boy who has lived an existence full of humiliation. On January 1, 1972, Barletto went to rest at his home in Chaclacayo. But he finds José armed with a pistol and a bloody ritual begins.

Alex Caballero is a private detective by correspondence. An interesting case of adultery and blackmail appears, which could make the business quick off. The investigation starts and it gets complicated until it lands in a shady presidential campaign, discovering an election fraud and crimes comitted by a politician connected to drug trafficking in order to win.

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.

Holy Week in the community of Porcón de Cajamarca is one of the manifestations that reflect the religious syncretism and magic inherent to the Andean being.

Life is a gift, life grants you gifts, but everyone has, within him, the seed of his own downfall: his gold tooth. In the end comes tragedy: an everlasting toothache.

Maritza, a young policewoman, falls in love with Marco, who trades in clandestinely extracted archeological pieces. But Lieutenant Eduardo, Maritza's boss, is attracted to her.

A violent blind man wanders through the center of Lima, upon entering a restaurant he causes an incident with the public and the employees.

Experimental film that, through two narrative lines—dance and photography—reimagines The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca.

It's 1943. Santiago, a young mathematician, travels through the Peruvian desert with an aging supporter of Nazi ideology and a driver with a sordid past. An unusual journey that will change his perspective on life.

Delfor Vargas, son of one of the photographers, protagonists of this film, introduces us to the artistic world of the famous Arequipa photographers of the 20th century: the Vargas brothers.

Para is a Quechua girl who suffers constant abuse from her mother. Her only consolation is her reflection in the water, with whom she shares her sorrows. One day, overwhelmed by her abuse, she decides to run away from home and dives into a lake to meet the girl in her reflection. Underwater, her reflection reveals some hidden memories of her, taking PARA on an emotional journey where she discovers her strength to forgive and build her own future.

María Reiche studied for more than four decades the "largest calendar in the world", located between Nasca and Palpa, and made up of the famous geoglyphs.

Juan Torres lives in an isolated house in the shore of an Amazonian river. With a wisdom learnt from life itself, from nature itself he tells us his story.

A 68-year-old peruvian writes to a marriage agency in New York hoping to find a millionaire wife who will save him from poverty.