A Portrait of a Lover as a Tired Man

Twenty years ago, director Christiane Burkhard’s parents died in a plane crash. Now she has made a documentary, in collaboration with her sister, about remembering and coming to terms with the facts. First, she looks for accounts in the former homes and from family and friends of the couple. She also has a large number of old Super-8 recordings. Her mother was an enthusiastic amateur filmmaker, who captured all the major family events on film. Together with her sister, Burkhard watches the footage of the smiling faces of her parents. Making this documentary becomes a self-conceived ritual that should help her bid farewell to an unreal and unaccepted past. The subdued tone suits the difficulties all those involved have talking about the event, even after twenty years.

The first-born son of a wealthy Mexican businessman, Simon is doted upon by his father, Don Andres. But as Simon grows older, he displays a fondness for dressing in women's clothing and playing with dolls, and is eventually banished from home and disinherited. He then finds work as a performer in a nightclub that his father patronizes. Not recognizing his son as a beautiful young woman, Don Andres discloses some surprising secrets of his own.

A family tragedy hits an Arequipa family. A young man, convinced that the tragedy is going unpunished, decides to take justice into his own hands.

Obsessed with having a child, a couple devoted to a religious cult decides to bring a pregnant young woman, into their home until the baby is born, intending to adopt the child afterwards.

A 17th century biography of Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo, an outstanding nun of the Monastery of Santa Catalina, in Arequipa, Peru. A story about a mystical character that reformed life in the monastery while living a life full of loyalty to her convictions and ideals.