Sofía Velázquez Núñez

Embracing a temporary visual impairment, a filmmaker immerses in her family’s 1990s home movies, composing a narrative that reimagines her father’s vision. They reconnect in the present, amid vulnerability, awkwardness and love: the story of a gardener and a one-eyed woman.

There was once a group of Peruvian anarchist poets forced into hiding who, during their secret meetings, sought to assume a non-human identity. Drawing on the famous Persian fable of the same name, the filmmaker translates the power of poetry and friendship into images and sound, serving as def iant stances against the established order.

Short documentary about Lalo Parra Bello, a film director and actor from Ayacucho. Through his story, we discover the filmmakers of a growing industry that, despite its rapid growth, remains largely unknown because it operates far from the capital.

Eva is a young photographer who seeks to find herself in images. Miguel, a painter who has the magical power to transform the portrait of his clients and offer them what they want to be. Jhonny is a wandering Peruvian vendor who walks through Mexican streets offering stories and memories. These are three stories, about memory, common lives that have a path that unites them, the portrait of who they are and what they want to be.

A young girl lands a paraglider in downtown Lima. As she moves through the city and along the beach, memories come flooding back. Recalling the time she spent accompanying two of her friends as they underwent clandestine abortions, she wonders what her presence meant to them, what her role as accompanist consisted of.

A group of filmmakers arrives in Santiago de Chuco, a town in the Peruvian highlands where the poet César Vallejo was born. With the excuse of a casting, the filmmakers appropriate the theater and the inhabitants of the place arrive, revealing little by little some lives embraced by the aura of the poet, who died in Paris seventy years ago. All of them, inhabitants and filmmakers, are confused between verses, stories and poetry. Fantasy emerges and characters like the blind Santiago-who rings the bells always warning something-; or the young musician Elder - whose desires loom like a cornucopia-trace a liminal path between fiction and reality.

Brus Rubio is a young Bora-Huitoto man who tells the story of his community through paintings made with natural dyes on tree bark. Through Brus's art, we can gain insight into the reality of Amazonian peoples and the unique vision an artist has of his own world, both real and imagined.

In Chucuito, a group of siblings of Italian origin return to their childhood home in the final stage of their lives.

A journey through the principal expression of Peruvian popular music: the huayno with harp. For harpist Laura Pacheco, collector Alfredo Villar, and composer Rubén Cavellos, music is the path of travel, memory, and dreams. And it is also a way to get to know Peru.

Reconstruction of memory through music, memories and the lack of both.

An English and Quechua teacher goes abroad. Through a letter addressed to the colleague with whom he will be working for a while, he reflects on his identity and on the country.

Babalú, by Sofía Velázquez and Carlos Sánchez, portrays the daily life of an elderly, full-time gas delivery man. At night, he picks up an old book, settles into his comfortable armchair, and plays the trumpet as he did when he conducted the orchestra that gives the short film its name. It captures the sadness of witnessing an artist's decline, dictated by necessity. The song he plays on the trumpet seems to weep, like the languid images that make up the video.

The altar ceases to be ceremonial and ostentatious, becoming—apparently—earthly and everyday. Most people carry these small altars without realizing it.