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Tag Archives: Peru
Don’t Tell Anyone AKA No se lo digas a nadie (1998) Francisco J. Lombardi, Santiago Magill, Christian Meier, Lucía Jiménez
Based on the alleged autobiography of gay peruvian talk show host Jaime Bailey. Read More »
No Stars in the Jungle AKA En la selva no hay estrellas (1967) Armando Robles Godoy, Jorge Aragón, Willie Griffiths, César David Miró
The story begins as fable, with this man who wants to steal the gold from an old woman in the jungle. Read More »
Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon (1993) Luis Llosa, Daphne Zuniga, Tom Verica, Barry Bostwick
Outlaw Joam Garral makes a clandestine journey down the crocodile and piranha infested Amazon river to attend his daughter’s marriage. Read More »
Icaros (2014) Georgina Barreiro, Mokan Rono
Icaros explores the spiritual universe of the Shipibo indigenous people who live by the Ucayali river, one of the main tributaries of the Peruvian Amazon. Read More »
Paloma de papel / Paper Dove (2003) Fabrizio Aguilar
Juan, a young man convicted of terrorism, is given amnesty from a Lima prison; he boards a bus to return home and, in his mind’s eye, recalls events in his village near Huaraz when he was 10 or 12. His father is long dead, his mother lives with Fermin, secretly a sympathizer with the Communist guerrillas in the hills. Town leaders are assassinated at night. When Juan discovers Fermin’s secret, Juan is spirited away to the guerrillas to learn Marxist slogans and how to fight. When the band decides to attack the town to avenge the death of a comrade, Juan must choose. There are no white hats on any side: critical thought without love of life bears no fruit, writes Erich Fromm.
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