
Nora de Izcue
Directing
Biography
Nora de Izcue was born in 1934 in Peru. She is the first female director and writer of her country.
Known For

A young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.
Mirage

César Calvo was one of the great contemporary Peruvian poets belonging to the Generation of the 60s. His dazzling and moving, refined and musical poetry; profiled him as a character who over the years has become a legend.
Responso Para un Abrazo: Tras la Huella de un Poeta

Following the Fisga in the solitary journey through the waters and exuberant nature of the Amazon, we witness the patient search for the fish that will feed his family, and his struggle to catch it.
CanciĂłn al viejo fisga que acecha en los lagos amazĂłnicos

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Monedas Malditas

A love story of a sociologist and a girl from country in the magic-religious context of Amazon.
The Wind of Ayahuasca

Cecilia Cartagena, an afroperuvian woman coast, presents with her testimony a story of injustice and suffering that passes through several generations. It is, however, marked by hope and struggle to achieve a better world.
Color de mujer

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El Juansito

In the Chincha Valley, the historic center of slavery in Peru, a group of children discover the history of their race through music and an elderly villager.
Guitarra sin Cuerdas

Illustrates the life of Saturnino Huillca, a peasant union leader, and the motivations that lead the Quechua peasantry to undertake the struggle for their social activists. The events that came to constitute a force of pressure that moved the country and made it see the importance of carrying out the agrarian reform.
Runan Caycu

A politic documentary about Peru in 2000.
El viento de todas partes

A merchant from the Amazon River arrives at a village located on its banks, and in the purchase-sale manipulations with a couple of riverside peasants, he manages to sell them utensils that they do not need and increase the debt they have with him.
Los pirañas
A young socialite feels a void in her life. On a aimless stroll, she happens upon a boy who will change her life, helping her discover beauty in natural and everyday environments.
Encuentro
Testimony of two women leaders from the marginalized neighborhoods of Lima. One of them organized the Milk Program Committees for children; the other, MarĂa Elena Moyano (later murdered by Shining Path terrorists), organized the National Federation of Women.
Pobladoras de Cerros y Arenales

Residents of nine slums of Cusco decided to unite in order to demand water service. In nearly a year of community works that involved men, women and children they inaugurated a reservoir and managed multiple community pools.
Como una sola mano
It is a short film about ecological protection of the Chillon River Valley..
Para Vivir Mañana TodavĂa
Short film.
Maternidad Sin Riesgo

UNICEF film.
Las Calles de los Niños

The life and work of teacher Elena Izcue.
Elena Izcue: La armonĂa silenciosa
Short film about the making of Robles Godoy's second feature film.
AsĂ se realizĂł La Muralla Verde

Short Film by Nora de Izcue