Q'eros: The Shape of Survival

Exploration of the way of life of the Q’eros Indians of Peru, who have lived in the Andes for more than 3,000 years.

El cargador

Dramatic testimony of Gregorio Condori Mamani, who works as a porter in Cusco, Peru. Despite the huge effort they make everyday for a few coins, porters fall and find death in the streets.

The Nature of Ayahuasca

Ayahausca is a traditional plant medicine from the Amazon used to treat a variety of physical and psychology illnesses and conditions. This documentary explores the use of the Ayahausca as a holistic medicine, challenging stigmas around its use and helping people become more conscious and ethical consumers of the plant if that's the path they choose.

Esperanza

A day in the life of Esperanza, a Quechua girl who lives in the remote mountains of southwestern Bolivia.

Runa Simi

Single father and Cusco radio host Fernando shares a modest yet endearing hobby with his son: dubbing classic animated clips into Quechua, an Indigenous language spoken by a relatively small population. When one of their dubs unexpectedly goes viral, a private passion transforms into something far more ambitious and meaningful.

Curandera

A documentary film about one woman's incredible life journey to meet and build a relationship with Ayahuasca. Her name is Tatiana Aya Tupinambá and she chose the path of an Ayahuasca curandera. Travel into the jungle with us near Pucallpa, Peru to meet Tatiana's Ashaninka teacher, Juan Flores. Experience the magical location of Mayantuyacu, where Tatiana's journey of self-discovery and healing blossomed. Mayantuyacu is a world famous healing center and is known for it's incredible unique geothermal river which is the largest boiling river on the planet. Learn about plant 'dietas', see the process of making Ayahuasca, and witness the fascinating practice that is 'Curanderismo', the way of healing in the Amazon rainforest. Understand how the Ayahuasca songs, Icaros, are learned from the plants and connect to force that these vibrational medicines carry.

Povo da Floresta

Everything Else Matters

In-depth interviews with international researchers, psychiatrists and practitioners explore how psychedelic experiences can be made safer and more beneficial, and when and by whom they should be avoided.

AQAQUÑI

Mother River

In a remote Peruvian city, lives Honorata Vilca, an illiterate woman of Quechua descent who sells candies more than 20 years ago, with the rain will cry to the sky itself.

Aggregate States of Matters

Aggregate States of Matters highlights the ambiguous relationship between humans and nature. For her new 35mm film shot in Peru, Rosa Barba worked with communities that are affected by the melting of a glacier and geological time becoming exposed. Barba shows the slow disappearance of the glacier and the perception of this fact within the Quechuan population in the Andes. While exploring different local myths, she outlines the possibility of translating ancient knowledge into the present time.

Curas da Terra

Q'eros: Hombres de Altura

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.

Yawar fiesta: Fiesta de sangre

An indigenous tradition in the highlands of Peru where three key players take part: a wild condor, a raging bull and brave young men.

Without Saying Goodbye

The opposite lives of a workaholic architect and a fiery artist are upended when their chance encounter in breathtaking Peru shifts their views on life.

A Thousand Roads

The film threads together four stories, taking us into the life of a stressed-out Mohawk stockbroker in Manhattan; a young Inupiat girl sent to live with her grandmother in Barrow, Alaska; a Navajo gang member who must find his core values in his reservation on the mesas of New Mexico; and a Quechua healer in Peru, attempting to save a sick child. Each story explores what it means to belong to a specific community.

Tintin and the Temple of the Sun

When seven archaeologists find an ancient Inca temple, they become victims of an ancient curse. Back in Europe, one by one they fall into a deep sleep and only once a day, all at the same time, they wake up for a few minutes and experience hallucinations where the sinister living mummy of Rascar Capac appears.

Bala perdida

A group of rich teenagers from Lima travel to Cusco looking for drugs, parties and sex. One of them wants to find Pamela, who he met when they were kids. In that quest, his friends and him will get to know a world of violence, perversion and disenchantment.

Kay Pacha

Maribel and Carmencita are two indigenous girls who work in Cuzco Central Square, taking pictures with the tourists in exchange of a tip. Leon, Maribel's father does not have a regular job, which causes fights with Ines, his wife and the rest of the family.

Islam's Non-Believers

The film documents the lives and experiences of ex-Muslims: people who have left Islam to become atheists, and who often face discrimination, harassment, ostracism and violence for leaving Islam, both in the UK and abroad.