Marianne Eyde

Paulina, a young merchant, arrives to Kintupata, where the coca leaf is cultivated. She becomes a friend and lover of Gato, the local drug trafficker, and Antonio, the eternal writer and former drug addict. Paulina’s conflict, confused and trapped by her new relationships is intermingled with the drama of the coca farmers. Filmed in the town center of Villa Mejorada, Valley of the Apurímac River, Ayacucho.

Casire is a peasant community on the slopes of the Sara Sara Volcano in the south of Peru. Two hundred people still live in the community. The film narrates the story of the Volcano´s spell on the community, when she discovered that incestous relationships were practised there. She erupted, leaving the village in ruins, but being a female herself considered the men guilty and allowed only the women to remain in the village. The film tells what happens after the Spanish conquest when the Christian decided to put an end to the Volcano’s power to cast spells, and the state of the village nowadays.

Maria earns her living fishing in a northern Peruvian village, working alongside her husband. But when her husband is called away to work on larger industrial fishing boat, Maria, who is pregnant, finds ways to act out her anger.

Portrait of the Ayacucho violinist Máximo Damián Huamani.

Explore the life of the Motilona community, part of the Kichua-Lamista ethnic group of the Peruvian Amazon, preserving their memory and cultural wealth.

The film presents the most important features of the Rondas Campesinas in their conflict with rustlers in Chota, in the Department of Cajamarca in the 1970s. Ronderos surprise three rustlers stealing cattle and hand them over to the authorities. But they release the rustlers, who go back to steal and kill a peasant. Faced with this murder, the ronderos capture the rustlers and decide to reeducate them, so they learn to work and become useful people for their community. With the participation of the members of the Rondas Campesinas from Chota and teachers of the normal school of Chota.

With pencils, brushes, colors, papers and canvases, those who were children during the internal armed conflict that ravaged Peru between 1980 and 2000, draw and paint with their children, forging the collective memory of the years of violence they lived through in their communities, in a story that dispels the fears that held them captive and shares their dreams for the future.

Peru in the early 1980s… a time of difficulties.