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Estranged couple Laura (Katerina D’Onofrio) and Ramón (Lucho Cáceres) meet up after 19 years to sign their long overdue divorce papers. A bureaucratic mishap -- anyone who’s ever been to a public office in Peru sadly knows how common those are -- forces them to spend an entire afternoon together, where things get said, secrets are revealed, and both parties reminisce on what drove them apart years ago. Sounds like a recipe for a romance, except that Ramon and Laura are former radical leftist militants, and theirs was an intense relationship that didn’t exactly end well. As the couple walks through the streets of the suburb of Barranco, the camera following their every move and capturing every word of their conversation, it’s clear that director...

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Back in July, a brief teaser was released for No Estamos Solos, a new Peruvian horror movie which looked very much like a haunted house/ghost story. Now, a second trailer is available and as it turns out, there was more to that first impression.Actors Marco Zunino (making his big screen leading man debut after stints in theatre and TV) and Fiorella Díaz play Mateo and Mónica, a married couple who move into their new home with 8 year-old daughter Sofía. Almost inmediately, they become the targets of a supernatural presence which needs to be exorcized; enter a priest played by the prolific Lucho Cáceres, making this not a movie about ghosts but about demonic possession.Judging from the trailer, director Daniel Rodríguez Risco - making a...

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From the very opening, we are warned that this is a film of doubling and illusion. A car slowly pulls up and to a stop in a nighttime Lima street, but we gradually realise that we are observing the scene through a large window, with the street and headlamps subtly reflecting and shifting in the pulled focus. It turns out that this sequence – man with gun stealthily enters house – forms the final chapter of Edo Celeste’s latest in a long line of successful detective novels, and he is composing it as we watch, before deleting it in disgust at his reliance on cliche – a black cat. It also turns out that later on Edo himself will repeat the exact same actions, via the same shots, trying to find the woman who can help him find the mysterious man who has posed for a photographic project depicting his works’ hero,...

Exclusive: Writer-director Javier Fuentes-León’s whodunit pays homage to Hollywood film noir and the reality-twisting fictions of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. The Vanished Elephant, which has its premiere Saturday at Toronto, stars Salvador del Solar as a crime novelist whose fiancée has been missing for seven years. He is given a clue to the mystery by a woman (Angie Cepeda) whose ex-husband died the same day the writer’s betrothed vanished. Lucho Cáceres, Tatiana Astengo, Vanessa Saba, Andrés Parra also star in the Peru-Colombia-Spain co-production. Mundial is selling international rights at Tiff. Watch the trailer above.