Peru Movies

Herlinda Augustin is a Shipibo healer who lives with her family in Peruvian Amazonia. Will she and other healers be able to maintain their ancient...

A man mixes his everyday life with his dark and wonderful unconscious world. His humanity lurks constantly and notions of reality or dreams are lost....

Josephine has all her life been told that her Peruvian aunt Augusta died in an armed struggle for the rights of the poor. As an adult Josefin decides...

Heddy Honigmann returns to her birthplace of Lima, Peru to reacquaint herself with a place and people dear to her heart. It is about a forgotten...

In Peru, Sergio García Locatelli visits both those places where human life is fragile and personal fate is uncertain and those where death...

Monica is the soul of a graceful young lady who comes out of her grave at night and appears to different passersby. One night she meets a young man...

In the late 1980's, during Peru's bloody internal conflict, an American couple traveled through the countryside looking for alternative healers to...

A devastating mercury spill by the world's richest gold mining corporation transforms a quiet peasant village in Peru's Andean mountains into a...

Short film about "Yuyanapaq", the photo exhibition of the armed conflict in Peru, at Casa Riva Agüero, Chorrillos, Lima-Peru.

Mariano, a trans man from Arequipa, Peru, visits his grandparents in the traditional village of Chivay, where he will face the conflict between his...

They have the power of the Apus! They live at more than 16,000 fasml since centuries! But their culture is in danger by the mining.

In the central Peruvian Amazon, a young indigenous man from the Nomatsigenga Community of Boca Kiatari, shares his urgent message with the world. In...

Tucked away in northern Indiana, the city of Peru, Indiana is the circus capitol of the world. Thousands of visitors and townspeople come to this...

They are striking works of art by any standard: but what purpose did they serve? Some of the theories put forward suggest that the lines were ancient...

Documentary directed by Kurt Rosenthal

Every two weeks, the world loses a language and with it, a piece of human history. Ese Eja is one of the language in danger of extinction. Many...

An experimental documentary short about the terrorism in Peru in 1986. Using archive footage, the director deconstructs the massacre in a successive...

Filmed in the jungles of Peru, shaman Don Jose Campos introduces the practices and benefits of Ayahuasca, the psychoactive plant brew that has been...

Icaros explores the spiritual universe of the Shipibo indigenous people who live by the Ucayali river, one of the main tributaries of the Peruvian...