Movies: Peru

Two madmen wish to avenge the historical Peruvian ship "Monitor Huascar" under the command of Capitain Grau: a hero, and a symbol of the 19th century war lost to Chile....

They have the power of the Apus! They live at more than 16,000 fasml since centuries! But their culture is in danger by the mining....

Documentary about the Velasco regime and the material conditions in Peru prior to the coup d'état in 1968, as well as the Peruvian left wing...

This film is an initiatory journey among the Fangs of Gabon and the Shipibos of Peru. With the sound of traditional instruments like the mogongo (arc in the mouth), the holy harp, and the Icaros, we discover the traditional peoples’ wisdom....

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

Documentary presenting the theory and application of the Theology of Liberation via interviews to priests from humble parishes in the slums of Lima. A fruitful labor of a Catholic Church sector committed to address social issues....

Every two weeks, the world loses a language and with it, a piece of human history. Ese Eja is one of the language in danger of extinction. Many stories and myths have been forgotten, but through dreams, the memory of the ancestors fight for remaining...

Based on real events in Peru, 1963. A team of revolutionary foreigners planned and pulled a heist on the biggest bank in Peru. The loot helped fund the rural revolution in Concepción, Cusco....

This is the story of the unexpected meeting between a young peruvian boy living with his lama and a pilot from the airmail flying above the boy's house....

Rosita Hernandez, a nine-year-old Indio girl, tells about the everyday life of her family living in the the desert plain between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, about 300 km south of Lima. Specific social and economic problems as well as ways of cop...

Short film about "Yuyanapaq", the photo exhibition of the armed conflict in Peru, at Casa Riva Agüero, Chorrillos, Lima-Peru....

Don Melcho peddles his political influence in his town and take advantage of his impoverished neighbors. An ambiguous character who may or may not expand his power....

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Humans, Animals, Earth, Wind and Water, converge with the same energy of a filmic fire, which crosses and relates them. By the appropriation of educational images of 16 mm films, which in the past were used to educate us, Animal Within evokes a poeti...

Three people fly from Chile and Spain to Iquitos, Peru to experience the magic of the sacred plant ayahuasca....

Alejandrina show us her connection with fire, plants and animals. Meanwhile, she tell us the changes that massacres, terrorism and drug trafficking have provoked in her culture. Are the lumbermen or the miners going to end her cultural history?...

Documentary directed by Kurt Rosenthal...

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While working as a photographer in Benin, West Africa, a two-week trip will turn into a two months personal journey. Me dicen Yovo (I'm a Yovo) is a visual diary of that experience. A Peruvian traveller is an odd presence in Benin whose ethnic a cult...