Cuarto Oscuro

Iván is found unconscious with an injured eye in the jungle. As Meshia reunites him and his family, she is drawn into a foreboding journey. A disturbing look at Peru’s cultural contradictions shot on a coarse mix of analogue and digital formats.

Alba, 11 years old, passes her days in silence. She loves little animals. She has learned to cope with her mother's illness, helping her to use the bathroom. Alba plays silently so that her mother can rest during the day. One night Alba's mother gets worse, and has to be taken to the hospital. With no one else to take care of her, Alba is sent to live with her father, who she hasn't seen since she was three years old. Living with her father is almost unbearable. Embarrassment, her first kiss, visits to mother in the hospital, Edgar's tender efforts to get close to her, and bullying at school; these are some of the experiences that pave Alba's journey to puberty and to self-acceptance.

Internet cafés and slackers, not-so-innocent schoolgirls and amateur porn using Google Glass: things in Lima, the Peruvian capital, are pretty similar to contemporary reality, virtual or otherwise, in the rest of the world. Cinema meets digital psychedelia.

A desert. Three lost people. One of them an invalid. After walking all day, under the sun and aimlessly, what's next?

Nino is a spoiled child who, immersed by a strong fever, is absorbed by a mysterious painting. Even though his mother had warned him, the trick that made him fall prey of the painting is unleashed. And so, Nino does nothing but get lost in a maze of images trying to return home.

Verony, a young dancer, accompanies her partner, Marte, a photographer, through his gender transition. Together, they embark on a road trip to the northern coast of Peru, where they spend New Year's Eve with Marte's family.

A shipwrecked man wanders between sea and land searching for that which left him empty and adrift.

On the northern coast of Ecuador, on Tolita Island, Washo, a fifty-year-old unemployed fisherman tempted by necessity accepts the invitation of his friend who brings him to raid a tomb, insisting he knows the location of a new Moche treasure.

Juan Daniel's memory doesn't belong to him anymore. After an amnesiac accident at the beginning of 2009, he started watching home-videos and having reminiscent dreams in the need of reconstructing his memory and identity. Months later, he found himself with too many celluloid, analog and digital memories, three generations' eyes captured by different formats. This is the neurological experience Juan Daniel suffered.

The micro-world of an isolated Amazonian native community is altered by the visit of an outsider with a camera and mysterious intentions.

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.

Direct-to-DVD documentary about the creation process and impact of the Peruvian film "Videofilia (and other viral syndromes)".

Two students at a desk, at night: he is in love, and she is... sleeping.

Today is October 31st, and David has to dress up to go trick-or-treating, but Halloween isn't celebrated in his neighborhood. He rides his little bicycle away from home in search of the holiday's spirit.

A ghostly presence wanders through familiar images that are revealed as simulations of an experience that used to be human.