The long fight over the land, which demolished the wall between master and serf, continues to divide Peru to this day. But the 1969 agrarian reform marked a before and after in the country's story - a profound change that Peruvian cinema reflected and encapsulated, creating great imagination we continue to discover today. 50 years after the social experiments of the revolution, we ask ourselves whether Peru really messed up or not with Juan Velasco Alvarado.
After the loss of their mother, a dysfunctional family is pressed to re-examine their lives. As father and children come to terms with their own existence, this journey turns into a tender and subtle meditation on grief.
Ismael, who dreams of becoming a filmmaker, returns back home to Trujillo, a peripheral city in Peru, after studying film in Switzerland. He’s faced with changes in his city and his family, and with the difficulties of making a living in his field. This voyage in between continents will become an interior journey of self discovery. Could this immense sea be the border between Ismael and his dreams?
This document is a consecutive and linear collection of situations and characters (Mario Poggi, el Hon. Antonio Córdova Quezada) that are appearing without a greater objective than the search itself.
A man plunged into grief connects through his dreams with the love he lost in a car accident.
Disrupt, reject, destroy, avoid: At the interrupted rhythm of the broken photographs that a granddaughter has rescued from her grandfather’s hands, the last piece reconstructs the memory of an older man who has decided to leave behind his life impulses to surrender to sleep and calm. An essay on the act of joining our memories, the illusion of remembering and the freedom to forget.
