Jorge Vignati

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.

Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has some of the most difficult peaks to be conquered, and they'll do it without the use of oxygen tanks. Herzog also takes some time to hear about their past experiences with other mountains, their personal tragedies and the reasons why they are so involved with such activity.

A group of Miskito Indians use Nicaraguan child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.

In the remote Andean highlands of Peru, a tight-knit indigenous peasant community has endured generations of brutal exploitation by local landowners. When a shocking act of violence exposes the complete failure of the official justice system to protect them, the villagers’ simmering anger pushes them toward a crossroads.

This 1987 documentary is the only window into an experimental open-air penal colony in the Peruvian Amazon, which no camera has ever entered and has been rarely written about.

“The Color of the Sky” is a testimony from those who, from their position as left-wing militants, full of dedication and faith, struggled to change Peruvian society, to conquer its sky. Set during the political events of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Unity, Political Violence, and Democracy are the main themes addressed by our protagonists.

A fundamental person for Peruvian cinema, Jorge Vignati Ojeda, tells us about his beginnings in the cinematographic world, in a meaningful interview conducted in his own style: hand-held camera and sequence shot. With him we tour the Plaza de Armas of his native Cusco, while we listen to his beginnings as an outstanding student of the university of life

Fiction that narrates the life of a publicist, his performance in an advertising agency and his attempt to write a story about a painter character and he, in turn, imagines him capturing it on a canvas.

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The life of peasant from Cuzco Peru who goes to Lima and becomes an attorney, then returns to Cuzco and see how his people is exploited and abused.

A rural community in the Ecuadorian Andes suddenly faces a land dispute with the legal representatives of a large company. The discovery of very rich ore deposits in the territory is the reason of the offensive greedy on those places, where the community lived since immemorial times.

From the side of the heart, is a documentary that tries to discover the reasons, motivations and individual situations that led numerous people to participate in the Peruvian left in the 1970s, years of the military governments of Juan Velasco Alvarado and Francisco Morales Bermúdez. It is a documentary of testimony and reflection that navigates memory to try to recognize concerns and rediscover experiences ideologically decanted in the light of the years. It does not intend to collect political theses or justify past or current positions, but to testify enthusiasms, frustrations, ideals and loyalties, if the use of this last word is possible.

A look at the history of Andahuaylas in which historical reflection is mixed with the memory and feelings of its inhabitants.

The José María Arguedas Theatre Group of Andahuaylas brings scenes of daily life to rural schools in this territory with the intention of reflecting on rural reality and thinking together about the education that is desired.

It's the first day of school in 1992, and Daniel can't find a way to explain the strange reason why he was late for school. His mild punishment will be to wait for the time change in his schoolyard.

Review of what “Huando” (Lima) was doing, before and after the Agrarian Reform (1969) carried out by the military government of General Juan Alvarado. Images of the hacienda considered in its time as an organization model, due to its productivity and efficiency.

Evocation of the work and personality of the singer-songwriter Chabuca Granda in 7 chapters: Criolla, Por el Perú, Confidencias, Negra, La Flor de la Canela, Siempre Viva, Proyectos. Through the testimonies of colleagues and family, landscapes of Lima, memories and tributes, Chabuca discovers his intimacy and his way of seeing Peru.

Portrait of a young boy from the Cocama Native Community of Iquitos, who makes a living playing the violin at funerals.

A documentary short about a town floating on a river in Iquitos, Peru.