The Gospel of the Flesh

Every couple is unique. At the same time there are patterns that all of us inherit from our families. We all have choices: repeat that pattern in the family we choose to build or create new one. That is the fight that the characters of About Them embraces. Both are gown up adults who has not been able to move away from their past, but they are trying so hard to build their own pattern, but the past keep reaches them.

Based on a theater musical, this movie is set in the city of Lima, Peru during the end of the 80's. The plot is about a group of youngsters from Lima who are participating in a contest for the best new Peruvian rock band. All these while they have to deal with the worst economic situation in Peru, corrupt leaders and terrorism that is rampant throughout the country. Features very popular Peruvian rock songs from the 80's and 90's.

It is the legend of several stories. A journalist who hates a guy who's on TV, you have to interview him, then ends up making love to this again and again, in the end both are separated from love. Another story is that of an old man who teaches at a beautiful piano melody to a very young child, in turn this man sees everywhere a very beautiful girl who happens to be a past love, she is a ghost that embodies in the body of every woman he sees. The child learning piano has a grandfather who loves him and conceited enough, yet the mother of the child does not like to go out with Grandpa because the child very rare note. The last story is about a woman from planet you want San Antonio grant him the miracle that an altar boy to notice her and she later marries her.

The remains of a male body that disappeared during the years of political violence have been exhumed, but nobody claims them. Now the only clue to his identify is the picture of a smiling girl found in his shirt pocket. Only a blurred photograph, a snapshot of a time and a memory…

Surrounded by social and political chaos in Lima during the summer of 1992, Lucia, Aurora, and their mother, Elena, plan to leave and seek opportunities in the United States. Their farewell involves reconnecting with their estranged father, Carlos, adding turbulence to the regrets, hopes, and fears of their emotional departure.

The life and times of Peruvian poet Javier Heraud in the 1950s and 1960s, including his university years and his involvement with Latin American guerrilla movements.

Based on the alleged autobiography of gay peruvian talk show host Jaime Bailey. Joaquin, a young man from the high class of Lima, deals with problems concerning his sexual identity as a child, then as a teenager pressured by his macho snobbish father, then as an independent lazy pot-smoking college student, and later as a cocaine addict in Lima and Miami.

Luzmila and Peta are two sisters who come from a modest environment and work as housemaids for Alicia and Carmen, two aristocratic ladies of Peru. They are almost considered a part of the families or, at least, that’s what it seems… But one day, as the city is taken over by violent protests, a birthday celebration gathers all the members of both families together. A long-held secret involving both households — upstairs and downstairs — is suddenly revealed, blowing up the bubble of their perfect aristocratic world forever.

In an abandoned glass factory, a woman exploits her workers, all of them mentally ill. A gang of young assailants decides to rob said factory, but in order to achieve that, they must get one of them into the woman's house first. What they do know is that Maruja, the woman's goddaughter also lives there.

Set against the backdrop of an international finance deal in New York and Peru, Oliver's Deal is an intense political drama which explores how far people will go to get what they want.

Alex will soon become a father. In a storage room, he discovers deeply disturbing family photographs. Some suggest his mother’s marital infidelity; others indicate his father, a retired officer, was involved in various acts of violence. Alex’s investigation leads him to a town devastated years before by the violence of the Internal Armed Conflict, where he uncovers his true and intricate family album.

A mestizo (mixed race) Spanish and Indian soldier returns to Peru from Europe in 1618 to find a document that can prove he is not illegitimate.

Haunted by her recent past, a police lieutenant investigates a mysterious case known as 'The Sugar Girl': the appearance of a young girl in a city hotel. Although the authorities do not take the case seriously, the lieutenant suspects there is something deeper hidden, unaware that a macabre truth lies beneath.

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.

The story of a young orphan, law student whose close relatives limits to just his grandfather and one of his teachers.

The amazing story of Daniel, a dolphin who abandons the safety of his pod to explore the ocean and discover the true purpose of his life.

This is a story of two gifted dancers, Arturo and Rosario and their journey to make their dreams come true, under the beat of the marinera.

Margarita tells the story of Rafo (Giovanni Ciccia) who is a divorced parent in his forties that lives the life of a twenty-year old bachelor. Until his adorable, determined and tween daughter, Margarita (Francisca Aronsson), knocks on his door to move in his house without notice. Rafo's life will take a chaotic and fun turn in which he will find himself and other people like Claudia (Melania Urbina), his neighbor. Margarita, with her kindness and youth, will change Rafo's life and everyone around her forever.

A family, Mateo, Monica and eight year old Sofia, move into a house on the outskirts of Lima. From the first night, the girl is haunted by a terrifying being. These harassments become every time more violent and disturbing, and soon enough will require the presence of a priest, who will try to help without imagining the consequences.

Short film based on the short story by Juan Carlos Onetti

Roque is a young archaeology student who, through the mysterious carved figures on a gourd, seeks to uncover the macabre death of his family and the curse of his village. Aided by Wallallo Karwincho, a Wanka god reincarnated as an old man, he will confront Don Macario, a man condemned to live without a soul, punished by the mountain spirits.

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.

After the death of a group of teenagers using the Ouija, the psychologist Fernanda and her son return to Peru, but they will find themselves surrounded by an evil entity as big as its wicked sect.

Following the crazy advice of two shamans, an aspiring chef appeals to an incredible resource to win a national cooking competition: he publicly commits to personally dive to the bottom of the sea, find a sleeping shark, wake it up and turn it into a ceviche.

Eleven football-loving friends participate in a championship playing against a professional team, but this will lead to many problems and complications.

The film tells the story of four raw facing different situations of life: love, heartache and endless tragicomic adventures .

A crime novelist receives a vital clue to the whereabouts of his long-missing fiancée.

After the death of her husband, Cecilia joins her childhood friends to embark on a trip to Pacasmayo that will put their friendship to the test.

A blindsided boyfriend must prove his fidelity when his girlfriend spontaneously dumps him after suspecting him of cheating. Based on the successful stan-up comedy show of the same name.

Two decades later, Tony Blades, Mandril, and El Dragón are released from prison to confront a mafia controlling the Rímac district. In a Lima plagued by extortion and contract killings, the iconic vigilante group returns without a shred of mercy, ready to fight crime by their own rules.

Eleven friends face the kidnapper of their children on the soccer field. Only a victory will bring them back to their families.