Indigenous Peoples’ Film and Communication Festival Returns to Peru After 35 Years
June 9, 2025 Hour: 12:02 pm
More than 50 films from 12 countries will be screened free of charge at the International Film and Communication Festival of Indigenous Peoples, which will return to Peru after 35 years, according to the Cultural Center of Spain in Lima.
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The fifteenth edition of the festival, which will also include master classes and talks with international filmmakers, will be inaugurated on June 20 at the Mario Vargas Llosa auditorium of the National Library of Peru, in the Lima district of San Borja.
With the slogan ‘Voices and images of our mother earth’, the meeting will take place until June 28 with the screening of films from 12 countries in Latin America, North America and Europe, which can be seen in five venues in Lima.
The screenings of the festival will be offered at the National Library of Peru, the National Major University of San Marcos (UNMSM), the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), the Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University and the PUCP Cultural Center.
The festival, organized by the Latin American Film and Communication Coordination of Indigenous Peoples (Clacpi) since 1985, will have its next edition in Peru, run by Aidesep, ECA and Chirapaq. The program will include fiction, documentary, animation and other formats from various countries, and will have the participation of fifty indigenous filmmakers who will dialogue with the public.
The central guest of this edition will be Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, considered a leading figure in Canadian Indigenous cinema, who will present his film ‘Uiksaringitara’ (Wrong Husband) and give an open master class on June 23 at the National University of San Marcos.
Other guests will include Brazilian Graciela Guaraní, a Guarani Kaiowá filmmaker; Shaandiin Tome, a Diné filmmaker from the United States; Mexican Zapotec director Yolanda Cruz; and Sami filmmaker and visual artist Marja Helander, from Finland.