Una mejor vida

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.

“Huarango” explores the story of a successful NYC Chef, who is brought back to his home town to attend his mother’s funeral in Nazca, Peru. The film takes place in his first 48 hours in Peru after being gone for 20 years. He arrives at his childhood home a day before everyone is supposed to arrive for the funeral, expecting to be alone and use that time to settle in - but he is met with the surprise that Vanessa, his sister, is there as well. They were both not expecting to see each other that day, and are now forced to talk about their relationship, and Gonzalo is forced to confront his decisions and the effect it had on his family.

Ana tries to spend a normal vacation, but the difficult relationship with her children, whom she tries to protect from the instability and violence in a country on the verge of economic and social debacle, overwhelms her to the point of exhaustion. She doubts whether to stay or start from scratch away, although she is still waiting for the arrival of Carlos, exiled in East Germany

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.

Amores Gatos is an experimental tragicomedy about a wannabe-poet jack-of-all-trades dilettante that earns his living as a cat-sitter in NYC. On a raucous night on the job he manages to lose the same cat three times only to realize, when the owners unexpectedly return, that their cat has been replaced by another.

After memories of the past are unleashed, a daughter reaches the limit of the conflictive relationship with her mother in the middle of a birthday celebration.

Ana just had her heart broken and not only the city could hear it but feel it wih a tremor. In a society that suppresses feelings she must choose between controlling them or extracting her heart.

Magallanes sees his humdrum life turn upside down the day Celina, a women he met in the violent years when he was a soldier with the Peruvian Army, jumps into his taxi in a Lima street. This unexpected re-encounter after 25 years with the dark past that unites them prompts Magallanes to embark on a daring plan to help Celina get money and find his own redemption.

Miguel’s life has stalled since his wife left him. Everyone, except him, is aware that she will not return. On the other hand, Camila, her adolescent daughter and withdrawn, navigates aimlessly in a love triangle between her best friend and a singular skater.

In an abandoned city after a zombie epidemic, José walks the streets looking for supplies in houses, stores and taps to survive. He lives with the freedom that he did not have before the infectious outbreak. At the same time, Matías and Andrea arrive in the same city and are gathering supplies to meet his mother again and go to a safe area. Then they meet.

Renzo Collazos has been a recognized journalist for the political section of the newspaper El Comercio for a year. One morning, the website editor asks him to manage a blog dedicated to youth and write weekly about his pale social-sentimental-sexual life. Collazos accepts, convinced that he has nothing important to tell: he has no partner; he still lives with his mother; in his spare time he reads, writes poetry, masturbates, and is fed up with the fact that his closest friends have married (because he also wanted to marry). Unexpectedly, the Wanted Girlfriend blog becomes a success as Renzo writes about his cynical love dilemmas, from the marriage of his ex-girlfriend to the failed night raids on Friday and Saturday, and he gains popularity. That fame makes him a more selfish, more vain, more stupid guy who ends up sabotaging his relationships. He finds a girlfriend, but she decides to end things and his world falls apart again. Realizing what he has become, he decides to change.

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A family dad with no technology knowledge is fired by his new boss, a young millennial. In desperation to don't lose his home and after learning that his wife is pregnant, he decides to become a YouTuber, for what he will need the help of his two misunderstood kids.

Mariella, who is gravely ill, receives the unexpected visit of her youngest son, Gabriel, after seven years apart. The discomfort between them grows as they talk, revealing repressed feelings and unresolved arguments. Trapped by her prejudices, Mariella still struggles to accept Gabriel’s sexuality, and although she reveals that she will die soon, Gabriel cannot promise he will visit her again.

After a trip with friends, Rodrigo and Mila begin to get to know each other. Caught up in the whirlwind of falling in love, they spend hours stuck in Mila’s car in Lima, one of the world’s most congested cities. In these «dead times”, subjected to the stress of a chaotic city, they are forced to talk, and grapple with the everyday problems of their own lives and their relationship, to the point of questioning whether they should stay together.