Manuel Chambi Movies

In the remote Andean highlands of Peru, a tight-knit indigenous peasant community has endured generations of brutal exploitation by local landowners....

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

The only and unfinished feature film made by Manuel Chambi with his students from the University of Lima.

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With students from the University of Lima, 1970.

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First social and scientific short film. It depicts a surgical intervention on a real blind patient to encourage reflection on the problems of this...

Cusco film school.

Short film.

Documentary that records the Kanas Carnival for four days. This was the second or third version about the festival in the town of Kanas (after...

Short film.

This documentary about Quyllurrit'i, the grandest and most important festival in the Andean world in Cusco, shows how various communities come...

This short-film is the first production of Cine Club Cusco, directed by Manuel Chambi and filmed in 16 mm on reversible film. It is a visual tour of...

The danzaq, or scissor dancer, from Ayacucho, Huancavelica, or Apurimac, is the only dancer in the Americas into whose body, according to legend, a...

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Short film.