Festival PUCP 2023
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- DirectorLisandro AlonsoStarsViggo MortensenChiara MastroianniAlaina CliffordMurphy searches for his daughter after she is kidnapped by the outlaw Randall.
- DirectorRodrigo MorenoStarsDaniel ElíasEsteban BigliardiMargarita MolfinoBank employee Morán schemes to steal enough money to never work again, then confess and serve prison time while his colleague hides the cash. Soon under investigative pressure, accomplice Román meets a woman who transforms him forever.
- DirectorAndrew SalaStarsIgnacio QuesadaTamara RoccaLautaro SotoNacho (18) flees the violence of his home in Buenos Aires and seeks refuge with his father, a farmer he barely knows. The stay is interrupted when a cow is found dead, without explanation. In an attempt to gain his father's approval, Nacho tries to solve the death of the cows. But as he investigates, he discovers a thick layer of mistrust and tension between the classes, which leads him to ask himself what it is to be a boss.
- DirectorRenée Nader MessoraJoão SalavizaStarsFrancisco Hyjno KrahoIlda Patpro KrahoLuzia Cruwakwyj KrahoThrough her child's eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest.
- DirectorFelipe Gálvez HaberleStarsSam SpruellMark StanleyAlfredo CastroIn Chile in 1901, three horseman are paid to protect a vast estate. Accompanying a British soldier and an American mercenary is a mixed-race sniper, who realizes that his true mission is to kill the indigenous population.
- DirectorKattia G. ZúñigaStarsFernando BonillaAriana Chaves GavilánJoshua De LeónA heartfelt film about sisterhood, desires, jealousy and youth in the never ending tropical summer of Panama.
- DirectorLaura Baumeister de MontisStarsVirginia Raquel Sevilla GarciaCarlos GutierrezNoé HernándezAn 11-year-old and her mother are separated as the try to eke out a life on Nicaragua's largest landfill.
- DirectorAmat EscalanteStarsVicky AraicoBianca GonzalezLuis Fernando MarroquínEmiliano lives in a small mining town in Mexico. Driven by a deep sense of justice, he seeks those responsible for the disappearance of his activist mother.
- DirectorFernando López CardonaStarsCésar BadilloLucía BedoyaCarlos Mario EcheverryA man's decapitated body is buried unnamed in Puerto Berrio. His dismembered corpse frightens locals. At the funeral, a stranger writes "chosen" on the coffin, sealing a pact to retrieve the missing head and restore the man's dignity.
- DirectorMatías BizeStarsAntonia ZegersNéstor CantillanaYair JuriA seven-year-old child disappears from his parents' sight in a mysterious but haunting forest after a punishment.
- DirectorLeonardo BarbuyStarsJorge PomacanchariCleiner YupaGisela YupaIn the Peruvian Andes, two young children are raised in isolation by their father. A series of unexpected events will radically transform the only reality they know and will bring Sabina, the older sister, to meet her past and her culture.
- DirectorMartín BenchimolStarsAlexa OlivoJustina OlivoJustina has been rewarded by her former employer for her lifelong devotion to her as a maid with a colossal mansion deep in the Argentinian Pampa. The only condition is that she must never sell it.
- DirectorPavel GiroudIn 1973, Cuban poet, Heberto Padilla, was arrested by state security accused of counterrevolutionary. Faced with international pressure, the Cuban government forced him to incriminate himself in the purest Stalinist style.
- DirectorJoris LachaiseAn unexpected love story between a trans former sex worker and a FARC rebel begins in a Colombian prison and leads to an alliance in solidarity between trans activists and FARC militants who have laid down their arms.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsAugusto GóngoraPaulina UrrutiaGustavo CeratiAugusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsSonia BragaSeverino CavalcantiTony CurtisDowntown Recife's classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that's just part of the story.
- DirectorEverardo GonzálezCombines true stories to create its titular character, and parallels with the manufacturing of a gun. The two stories' convergent paths twist in a double helix of violence which leaves one person dead by firearms every 41 minutes.
- DirectorSofía Paoli ThorneHealing from the trauma of the Paraguayan dictatorship, Celsa uses herbs to mend deep wounds left from her imprisonment and torture.
- DirectorTatiana HuezoStarsMontserrat HernandezMaría de los Ángeles Pacheco TapiaLuz María Vázquez GonzálezIn the remote Mexican village of El Eco, life is rich in privation, work and children. Here, granddaughters movingly take care of grandmothers until they die.
- DirectorFelipe Esparza PérezStarsDionicio Huaraccallo IdmeMoisés Jiménez CarbajalJulio Carcausto LaritoDemonstrating the power of Slow Cinema, Cielo abierto is a portrait of a difficult meeting of worlds. A Peruvian father labours patiently, chipping at the white volcanic stone that forms an extraordinary landscape. His son is part of the modern world: he uses cameras and drones in order to create the digital model of a church on a computer. Separated by the mysterious death of the wife/mother figure in the family, these men do not connect. And yet their paths cross in a ghostly manner, as do their professions: each in their own way works with textures and volumes, sensations and perceptions. Can the realm of digital art recreate and revivify the old world? Can it also awaken hearts grown lonely and cold?
- DirectorIna MayushinStarsDante del AguilaClaudia Solís
- DirectorGonzalo LadinesStarsEsteban RecagnoRicardo CombiJob MansillaJavi is a famous talk show host and makes a living by making fun of everybody. After his father's death, he loses his sense of humor. In order to get his show back, he hires a comedian, who will try to teach him to make fun of himself.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsKoji YakushoTokio EmotoArisa NakanoHirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsEthan HawkePedro PascalPedro CasablancAfter twenty-five years Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend Sheriff Jake. They celebrate the meeting, but the next morning Jake tells him that reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their friendship.
- DirectorMounia MeddourStarsLyna KhoudriRachida BrakniNadia KaciA young woman who is passionate about ballet dancing and experiences a trauma, and then she meets other women who have experienced similar situations and they find a creative way to pursue their passion.
- DirectorJoel CaleroStarsJuana BurgaAmiel CayoLucho CáceresAlejandra returns to Peru. She discovers that her father is alive and in prison. Soon, her journey will become a voyage of inner discovery that will bring her closer to her father, her country, and her own identity.
- DirectorLúcia MuratStarsShico MenegatGeorgette FadelValentina HerszageVera, imprisoned at a military fortress during the dictatorship, 1969, gets to know a soldier, Armando, who, in the face of torture, decides to take messages from Vera to his family and establishes an affective relationship with D. Maria, Vera's mother. Despite the horrors of the time, the film works on this possibility of a dialog between two lonely and lost human beings, a high-middle-class lady and a young southerner of rural origin. Today, Vera, aged 70, is a professor at the university, and debate with her students about politics, forgiveness and Hannah Arendt.
- DirectorAlfred OliveriStarsPia LeonVirgilio MartínezPeruvian superstar chef Virgilio Martinez revisits his life and the birth of mythic Central Restaurant and the "uneven concept" while he embarks into a journey to Cusco to reopen his restaurant MIL after the pandemic
- DirectorIsrael CárdenasLaura Amelia GuzmánStarsCecilia GarciaCuquín VictoriaJuan Maria AlmonteA high-class woman with "empty nest syndrome" ends up with one of her maid's granddaughters under her care. She must decide between giving the girl back or keeping her in the family.
- DirectorMaría Luisa BembergStarsAssumpta SernaDominique SandaHéctor AlterioThis fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, established herself as an important New World philosopher, poet, playwright and early feminist. When Sor Juana comes under the scrutiny of a vicious archbishop (Lautaro Murúa) for her unconventional ways, she must appeal to a powerful political connection -- the Viceroy's scholarly wife.
- DirectorAdriana LestidoA visual meditation on the return to the origin through the register of a solitary journey around the Arctic Circle. The transformation of the landscape through the four seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring) and the internal connection with what you see, to allow for your own transformation. The camera becomes a tool for inquiry, not only of the surroundings but also of your own and solitary personal experience. It's the conquest of home, in the sense of striving to get to the place you belong to. It's a full cycle and the return to life, transformed and renewed. A journey towards another state of being.
- DirectorFrancisco J. LombardiStarsDiego BertieAdriana DávilaJorge ChiarellaBased on Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment': Ramón is a lonely laws student that lives in a rented room and thinks he has committed the perfect crime, but can't stand the consequences. A story of irrationality, anxiety and suffering.
- DirectorLeos CaraxStarsDenis LavantMireille PerrierCarroll BrooksParis by night. Alex, 22, wants to become a filmmaker. He is fascinated by first times and his girlfriend, Florence, has just left him for his best friend, Thomas. First break-up, first attempted murder: Alex tries to strangle Thomas, but gives up and wanders the streets. That evening, Mireille, a girl from provincial France who has come up to Paris to make commercials, is left by her boyfriend. Alex witnesses this separation. These two tormented souls run into each other at a party....
- DirectorLeos CaraxStarsMichel PiccoliJuliette BinocheDenis LavantAs a deadly virus which infects people who have loveless sex sweeps Paris, a lonely pariah attempts to steal a potent antidote, only to fall for the mistress of his partner-in-crime. Is the infectious young love the cure to the bad blood?
- DirectorIsabel CoixetStarsSarah PolleyScott SpeedmanMark RuffaloA young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.
- DirectorArmando Robles GodoyStarsJulio AlemánSandra RivaRaúl MartinA young couple forsakes their urban existence for life in the exciting but dangerous Peruvian jungle.
- DirectorArmando Robles GodoyStarsCésar CaballeroPercy MardiniAn allegorical story about a young writer who leaves home with his manuscript determined to conquer the world, then returns home after years of struggle as an old man with the world still unconquered.
- DirectorArmando Robles GodoyStarsMónica SánchezJavier EchevarríaGianella NeyraImposible amor es como se titula la canción que nos ofrece Jory Boy
- DirectorFelipe DegregoriStarsMilena AlvaIvonne BarrigaÉlide BreroA family longs to be on a TV show which does an in-depth expose of a different real-life family every week. When they are finally selected they decide to change their lives completely so that the audience sees them as they want to be seen, not as they really are.
- DirectorFrancisco J. LombardiStarsJosé Luis Ruiz BarahonaAna RisueñoDiego BertiePassion, criminal instincts an traditions melt together in this film, that shakes our conception of crime.
- DirectorClaudia LlosaStarsMagaly SolierSusi SánchezEfraín SolísFausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.