Bolero de noche

It has been days since Sebastian could sleep and tonight will be no exception. This solitary young man has found himself trapped in a strange game of seduction that started some time ago, back in the days when he could sleep.

Life is a gift, life grants you gifts, but everyone has, within him, the seed of his own downfall: his gold tooth. In the end comes tragedy: an everlasting toothache.

Lima, Peru, 1991. After years of fruitless efforts, a group of police officers finally find a lead on the whereabouts of Abimael Guzmán, the bloodthirsty leader of the communist terrorist gang Shining Path.

A current of thought unites the three episodes in a coherent way, embodied with few elements, and that makes of space, time, and movement, purely cinematographic modes of expression. Voice is not needed. Yes there are sounds, music, but not human voices, as in primitive cinema. There are faces, slow or fast movements, despair, fatality, a barely glimpsed horror, desire and fear of freedom. There is also love, perhaps as an illusion, rather than as a reality.

On Halloween night in Lima, four rich kids spend a night on the town, goofing, getting into trouble, and deciding to help Manuel lose his virginity. From Juan Diego's house they hire three call girls, not much older than they, and they pair up (El Gordo declines - he wants to be true to his girlfriend). The young women are sweet and street smart, the boys are naïve and full of bravado, Romance and violence are possibilities during this night of surprises and self discovery

Three lives in search of redemption intersect in the streets of Lima: undercover cop Gamarra’s desperate attempts to save his wife from a terminal illness gets him into trouble; bus driver Felix wants to be accepted into a religious sect after his involvement in a tragic traffic accident; and imperiled soccer club leader Narciso tries to secure his younger brother’s release from prison.

A timid and sensitive man quits his 9-5 job to pursue his dream of becoming a watercolor painter. However, his neighbors and love will not agree with his new endeavor.

It tells the love triangle between Cristina, Javier (her future husband) and Felipe (her ex of a lifetime). After her bachelorette party organized by her best friend Catalina of hers, Cristina discovers that she is pregnant, and she does not know which of the two is her father. In the fourth month of pregnancy, the doctor gives them the results of the paternity test, giving an unexpected twist to the story.

Four friends decide to change their lives by assaulting the largest and most exclusive casino in Lima dressed in the masks of the four most controversial Peruvian presidents. In the middle of the assault, they will end up taking a client hostage, not knowing that he is a well-known congressman.

Ella – well she has a name too – Luna (Patricia Garza), is actually about her much older husband and painter Alfredo (Paul Vega), and his choice of actions/reactions after she decides to leave him for a lover that he wasn’t aware of. Alberto has been going through a creative crisis and is under pressure to complete a series of paintings for a forthcoming show. It is nevertheless also plain to see that he’d been treating Luna, who’s also his model, largely as an object of desire and obsession – capturing with camera her every movement in the house when she’s not posing for him, and memorising her every physical feature, moles and warts included – he’d apparently counted twenty seven moles on her body. When Alfredo tracks down and entraps the lover she’d wanted to elope with (Rómulo Assereto), he’ll discover that they both have more in common than merely desiring the same woman…

Four years after their crazy night of escapades, Manuel, Efrain, and El Gordo's friendship has survived well into their college years. Now, living together they decide to throw an end of summer party to rival all parties. What they don't know is that Bibiana, an escort from Manuel's past comes back to stir things up, forcing them to make decisions that they may not be prepared to make.

Julia inherited her mother Asunta’s job as a domestic worker in the wealthy De la Puente household, where she was raised alongside the family’s daughters. Asunta, an Andean woman who migrated to Lima after Peru’s 1970 earthquake, carried a life shaped by displacement, silence, and sacrifice. Over the years, affection and inequality became inseparably intertwined within the household. Now, as illness and old age expose long-buried secrets, Julia is forced to confront the invisible social order that has defined her existence. Torn between loyalty and freedom, she must decide whether to remain in the role imposed on her or finally reclaim her own identity.

Over the course of one extraordinary day, the lives of a devious woman, a ruthless screenwriter, a hunky junkie and a snuff-film producer collide in an explosion of sex, violence, intrigue and death in this stylized urban action thriller. Twists and turns accumulate with alarming speed in the fast-paced film, which stars Juan Pablo Olyslager, Mafe Guarin Mcallister, Emanuel Loarca and Robert Rex.

Two brothers who have never been apart, and since their parents' death, the bond between them has only grown stronger. They work together, forming a perfect partnership, and seem to have a clear understanding of their roles. However, there always comes a day when one of them wonders what things would be like if they were in the other's shoes.