Luis Figueroa Yábar Movies

The We and the I is the heartfelt and comical story of the final bus ride home for a group of young high school students and graduates.

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,...

A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.

Cusco film school.

A constant element linked to the bull is water. This animal is said to emerge from the depths of an enchanted lagoon. It is a dangerous, almost...

The Virgin of Candelaria is associated with Pachamama, or Mother Earth, Lake Titicaca, mines, and lightning. An impressive variety of dances are...

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

Together with Luis Figueroa, Chambi filmed the constructions of the pre-Inca, Inca and colonial periods coexisting in the architecture of the city of...

During the course of our era, a major pre-Hispanic civilization, now called the Moche, developed on the northern coast of Peru, flourishing as the...

Kukuli, a young llama herder, leaves her grandparents in the countryside of Cusco to attend the Feast of Mamacha Carmen in the town of Paucartambo.

It is a masterpiece of Cusco's popular creativity, where the saints come to life. The Corpus Christi celebration in June is a solstice festival,...

View of the Sacred Lake of the Incas

Every January 20, the communities of Langui and Cheqa, located in the highlands of the Cusco provinces of Canas and Canchis, reenact a ritual battle...

This documentary was censored by COPROCI (the Film Promotion Commission) of Juan Velasco's government, which argued that it presented a savage view...

Short film.

The citadel of Machu Picchu reveals itself to us as suspended above the abysses, a beauty that is discovered little by little, to the rhythm of the...

This is one of four short films taken from the censored movie Chiaraqe, ritual battle (1975). In seven minutes, it explains in a didactic and...

Cusco film school.

The meaning of life and death in the pre-Columbian Mochica culture, as well as their sexuality as expressed in ceramics, represented naturally.

Cusco film school.