Augusto Cabada

An ambitious black comedy that tells three loosely related stories: a couple of elderly landowners, laid low by economic conditions and reformist politics, are trying to gather enough money to build themselves a marble tomb that would keep their remains in the style to which they still aspire; they give their now blind former housekeeper a pig that proves to be more trouble than it's worth as the effort to fatten it up destroys what little family the woman has; and one of the couple's tenants, who is presenter of a relentlessly optimistic radio self-help show, tries to put his own counsel into effect when he saves a young woman from suicide.

Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.

A documentary about the love for music and fascination for the sax in the central mountain range of Perú. It was filmed in the Mantaro Valley and in New York City. With an instrument mainly associated to blues, jazz and rock 'n' roll, Peruvians express their deepest feelings from their native mountains throughout the instrument.

Inspired by actual events, the film follows Aquiles, an Amazonian boy abducted by the terrorist group Shining Path. Through his testimony, we witness his journey from victim to fighter and his desperate attempt to escape. A raw and intimate look at indoctrination, violence, and survival, the film reconstructs his struggle for identity and freedom.

Passion, criminal instincts and traditions melt together in this film that shakes our understanding of crime.

Ramón, a psychologically unstable university student from Lima, murders his landlords, who constantly demanded the payment of the monthly rent for the hovel in which he lives. From here, remorse and the fear of being arrested will eat you inside.

The military anti-terrorist army takes control of "Chuspi", an unknown and faraway small village, isolated by the terrorist group "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path). A soldier called Vitin Luna, and other young soldiers face an invisible, perhaps superior force. Their unit is commanded by a brutal lieutenant who declares the entire village guilty of treason. In the face of this crisis, Vitin must choose between blind obedience and his own conscience.

The linking of three characters in a kind of mutual deceit. Different points of view, attitudes and a look at relationships marked by social and cultural differences.