Festival PUCP 2019

Two young lovers embark on a relationship while a rumor of sharks at the beach has everyone talking.

As her 15th birthday approaches, Miriam doesn't know how to explain to her family that the boyfriend she met online is black.

A well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.

A look at the working environment of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City's most luxurious hotels.

Ernesto is a young anthropologist in Guatemala. One day, while hearing the account of an old woman, he thinks he has found a lead that might guide him to his father, a "guerrillero" who went missing during the war.

Selva (13) lives in a coastal town in the Caribbean. After the sudden disappearance of her only motherly figure, she is left to take care of her grandfather who doesn't want to live. Between shadows and wild games, she must decide if she will help her grandfather die, even though that means going through her last moments of childhood alone.

A single mother balances taking care of her mother during her fight with cancer while dealing with a corruption scandal at work.

On a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

The story centers on a woman who debates whether to go on TV to discuss the murder of her LGBT daughter.

An introspective young girl falls for the new boy in class, an outcast who is also a hemophiliac.

A recently separated Argentinian couple, along with their two teenage children, go on a family vacation to Florianópolis, Brazil, where they become delightfully and problematically involved with the family from whom they rent a house.

Marcela's world becomes strange and fragile after the death of her sister Rina. She feels lost in her own home and the connections with her close family environment are dislocated.

Chilo and Omar seem to be the last men on earth. They live on a beach and they fish to survive. Their friendship, surrounded by sensuality, becomes a love story. Through their conversations, the film explores the human condition.

A teenagers prison in the middle of the Mapuche countryside, in the South of Chile. Every night the teenagers are attacked by recurrent nightmares.

Writer, Visual Artist and pioneer of the Queer movement in Latin America, Pedro Lemebel shook up conservative Chilean society during Pinochet's dictatorship in the 1980s. Body, blood and fire were protagonists in his work that he attempted to perpetuate in the last eight years of his life in a film he was never able to see finished. In an intimate and poetic journey through his risky performances dealing with homosexuality and human rights, "Lemebel" portrays a culmination of yearning immortality.

Downtown São Paulo, Brazil. An Apartment Building: 7 floors, 28 rooms, 107 residents who all have in common the addiction to crack. Over the course of several months, life in a social housing - part of a city hall "damage reduction" program about to be extinguished - is revealed. Characters on a hallucinated hunt for bonding and fighting passionately for life can be seen as the camera drifts through hallways, rooms, elevators, stairs; day and night. In this claustrophobic place, anything can happen.

January 19, 2018. Santa Teresita, Buenos Aires. A mosaic (intimate and observational) about the typical workers of the Argentinian beach. Each of their stories will be articulated throughout a working day: morning, afternoon and evening, portraying the color and joy of a summer day.

Soláas's feature debut is a vérité chronicle of final examinations at Argentina's public universities, in which students from a wide array of disciplines-botany, anatomy, astronomy, law, physics, music-prepare for, worry about, and ultimately partake in oral tests. Soláas trains her focus on a diverse and disparate group of 12 such students, capturing the intensity, nerves, and pressure bound up in their by turns dramatic and absurd experience of the examinations. A singular work of observation and pathos, The Faculties offers a thought-provoking meditation on the contemporary state of education and marks an auspicious debut for Soláas.

After a long political exile, in the summer of 1989 the Uruguayan Alfredo Zitarrosa died in his native country. After his death, hundreds of boxes with their memories remain closed in the family home for twenty-seven years. Today, his daughters and his wife rescue those memories, marked by exile and that are torn between oblivion and destruction by the passage of time.

In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.

Isa has more than enough on her plate with two children and the household, which she manages on her own. When her husband persists with his wish for a third child, she realizes that something must change.

A documentary about Jairo José Pinilla Téllez, the pioneer of suspense and science fiction in Colombian film. Pinilla was the first to use special effects in Colombian film and now, at over age 70, he is working to finish his last film: his first non-animated 3D film.

January 1st, 2003. As Brazil celebrates President Lula's historic investiture, two middle-class provincial families from Rio Grande do Sul gather in an old, poorly maintained house, around a champagne-fired barbecue, family secrets and frustrations. Domingo could be a day like any other, a sweet and peaceful day. But the changes promised to the Brazilian people by the new president deeply worry Laura, the matriarch, who fears to see his authority and wealth disappear a little more.

A woman uses her bureaucratic job to convince divorcing couples to stay together and is utterly committed to getting pregnant by her husband in a future of dance parties, ritualistic orgies and fundamentalist Christianity.