1. The Mirror of the Spirit
Anthropologist and filmmaker João Meirinhos travels in Peruvian Amazonia to speak with healers who work with the plant medicine ayahuasca. The journey begins on the outskirts of Puerto Maldonado in southeastern Peru, and winds northward to Pucallpa and Iquitos.
2. Grüße von Rosita aus Peru (Grüße von Rosita aus Peru)
Rosita Hernandez, a nine-year-old Indio girl, tells about the everyday life of her family living in the the desert plain between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, about 300 km south of Lima. Specific social and economic problems as well as ways of coping with them become visible.
3. When Multinationals Attack Nation States (Quand les multinationales attaquent les États)
In autumn 2016, demonstrations sprang up all over Europe against the CETA free-trade agreement between the European Union and Canada. The reason? An obscure clause which allows multinationals to sue nation states if they feel their profits may be damaged by government decisions. An investigation into the hidden world of international arbitration.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
4. Me dicen Yovo
While working as a photographer in Benin, West Africa, a two-week trip will turn into a two months personal journey. Me dicen Yovo is a visual diary of that experience. A Peruvian traveller is an odd presence in Benin whose ethnic a cultural identities are constantly creating unique situations, and provoking original thoughts on what it means to be from the "third world".
5. Columbus's Cursed Colony
In Columbus' Cursed Colony join two scientific expeditions on a journey that takes you beneath the waters of La Isabela Bay in Dominican Republic to search for the lost fleet of Christopher Columbus.
6. Sigo siendo (Sigo siendo)
A trip through the diversity of black and native Peruvian music. Character-driven film, one where the characters are integral to the nation itself. This movie delves into music and musicians, yet it's not strictly a musical; rather, it's a tapestry of seemingly disparate personal narratives woven together in a country also striving to define itself and sketch its identity
It has an average vote of 8.1 on TMDB.
7. Shipibos Konibos: Hombres mono, Hombres peces (Shipibos Konibos: Hombres mono, Hombres peces)
Alejandrina show us her connection with fire, plants and animals. Meanwhile, she tell us the changes that massacres, terrorism and drug trafficking have provoked in her culture. Are the lumbermen or the miners going to end her cultural history?
8. Ayahuasca and the Path of the Shaman
Desperate to recover from his depression, Dave travels from his home in British Columbia, Canada to Peru in order to experience the healing effects of the sacred medicine ayahuasca. After Dave spends some time in the country, a Shipibo healer begins to teach him how to work with the medicine more deeply.
9. Contrasts of Peru (Contrasts of Peru)
Peru is a country of many contrasts. From the cold waters of the Coast over the 6000 m high Andes to the unique biodiversity of the Amazon Jungle. Peru isn't only Machu Picchu. It's much more.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
10. Glimpses of Peru
This Traveltalk series short brings us to Lima, Peru where we see a modern city.
11. The Mysterious Mummified Dogs of Ancient Egypt (Rätselhafte Hundemumien)
This documentary examines the mysterious practice of mummifying animals in ancient Egypt as researchers explore the labyrinth of Tuna el-Gebel.
12. Inca Apocalypse: The Dark Evidence
(Inca Apocalypse: The Dark Evidence)
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
13. Touching the Void
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
It has an average vote of 7.495 on TMDB.
14. Pérou: Pays des Incas (Pérou: Pays des Incas)
(Pérou: Pays des Incas)
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
15. Animal Within (Con cierto animal)
Humans, Animals, Earth, Wind and Water, converge with the same energy of a filmic fire, which crosses and relates them. By the appropriation of educational images of 16 mm films, which in the past were used to educate us, Animal Within evokes a poetic collision between images of the human and the animal.
16. Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
In Peruvian Amazonia, for the first time in many years, a Shipibo–Konibo community prepare to perform the Aneshiati ceremony: a time of dance, song, festive clothing, and drink—including the sacred tea ayahuasca.
17. The True Story of Pirates (La Véritable histoire des pirates)
Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of international scholars paint a new portrait of the world of piracy in the Indian Ocean.
It has an average vote of 7.864 on TMDB.
18. The Shaman & Ayahuasca: Journeys to Sacred Realms
Filmed in the jungles of Peru, shaman Don Jose Campos introduces the practices and benefits of Ayahuasca, the psychoactive plant brew that has been used for healing and visionary journeys by Amazonian shamans for at least a thousand years.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
19. Phantoms of the Sierra Madre
A Danish writer travels to Mexico with the purpose of locating a mysterious Apache tribe that fervently seeks to remain in obscurity.
20. Mummies Secrets Of The Pharaohs
The grail is not the gold, nor the books of ancient wisdom, but the 3,000 year old DNA of the mummies, which may lead to a cure for malaria.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
