 Official poster of the 20th Lima Film Festival | |
| Opening film | Memories of Underdevelopment |
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| Location | Lima, Peru |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Awards | Trophy Spondylus: Dark Beast |
| Directors | Alicia Morales |
| Festival date | 5–13 August 2016 |
| Website | festivaldelima |
The 20th Lima Film Festival, organized by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, took place from 5 to 13 August 2016 in Lima, Peru. [1] [2] The awards were announced on 13 August 2016, with Dark Beast winning the Trophy Spondylus. [3]
The event paid tribute to the careers of three individuals: Edgar Saba, former director of the Lima Film Festival, Belgian filmmaker Luc Dardenne, and Brazilian actor Lázaro Ramos. [4]
The lineup of titles selected for the official selection include: [6]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Countrie(s) |
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| Incident Light | La luz incidente | Ariel Rotter |
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| The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis | La larga noche de Francisco Sanctis | Francisco Márquez & Andrea Testa | Argentina |
| Aquarius | Kleber Mendonça Filho |
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| Neon Bull | Boi Neon | Gabriel Mascaro |
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| Oblivious Memory | Quase Memória | Ruy Guerra | Brazil |
| Neruda | Pablo Larraín |
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| Much Ado About Nothing | Aquí no ha pasado nada | Alejandro Fernández Almendras | Chile |
| Lost North | Sin norte | Fernando Lavanderos | Chile |
| Dark Beast | Oscuro animal | Felipe Guerrero |
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| Alba | Ana Cristina Barragán |
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| Semana Santa | Alejandra Márquez Abella |
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| Desierto | Jonás Cuarón | Mexico | |
| Epitaph | Epitafio | Yulene Olaizola & Rubén Imaz | Mexico |
| The Dreamer | El soñador | Adrián Saba | Peru |
| [wi:k] | Rodrigo Moreno del Valle | Peru | |
| One Last Afternoon | La última tarde | Joel Calero |
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| The Apostate | El apóstata | Federico Veiroj |
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| From Afar | Desde allá | Lorenzo Vigas |
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| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somos Cuba: We Are Cuba | Somos Cuba - Wir sind Kuba | Annett Ilijew | Germany |
| The Pretty Ones | Las lindas | Melisa Liebenthal | Argentina |
| Favio: Chronicle of a Director | Favio: Crónica de un director | Alejandro Venturini | Argentina |
| Cinema Novo | Eryk Rocha | Brasil | |
| Curumim | Marcos Prado | Brasil | |
| Jerico: The Infinite Flight of Days | Jericó: el infinito vuelo de los días | Catalina Mesa |
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| A Secret in the Box | Un secreto en la caja | Javier Izquierdo | Ecuador |
| Loneliness Square | Plaza de la soledad | Maya Goded |
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| Tempestad | Tatiana Huezo | Mexico | |
| When Two Worlds Collide | Mathew Orzel & Heidi Brandenburg |
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| Eldorado XXI | Salomé Lamas |
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| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memories of Underdevelopment | Memorias del subdesarrollo | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba |
A list of films selected for the 'Made in Peru' lineup is as follows: [6]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Light on the Hill | La luz en el cerro | Ricardo Velarde | Peru |
| Old Town | Pueblo Viejo | Hans Matos Cámac | Peru |
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| La señal | Leandro Pinto Le Roux | Peru | |
| Sarita Colonia, the Moral Truce | Sarita Colonia, la tregua moral | Javier Ponce Gambirazio | Peru |
| The Little Firemen | Los bomberos | Quincy Perkins |
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A list of films selected for the 'Galas' lineup is as follows: [6]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Friend from the Park | Mi amiga del parque | Ana Katz |
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| Campo Grande | Sandra Kogut |
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| Real Beleza | Jorge Furtado | Brazil | |
| The Memory of Water | La memoria del agua | Matías Bize |
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| Between Fences | בין גדרות | Avi Mograbi |
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| A Monster with a Thousand Heads | Un monstruo de mil cabezas | Rodrigo Plá | Mexico |
| Vanity | La Vanité | Lionel Baier |
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A list of films selected for the 'Essential: The Ones from 2016' lineup is as follows: [6]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slack Bay | Ma Loute | Bruno Dumont |
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| Elle | Paul Verhoeven |
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| The Salesman | فروشنده | Asghar Farhadi |
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| Sweet Dreams | Fai bei sogni | Marco Bellocchio |
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| Loving | Jeff Nichols |
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A list of films selected for the 'Around the World in 8 Days' lineup is as follows: [6]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All of a Sudden | Auf Einmal | Aslı Özge |
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| Girl Asleep | Rosemary Myers | Australia | |
| Karadima Forest | El bosque de Karadima | Matías Lira | Chile |
| Rara | Pepa San Martín |
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| Perros | Harold Trompetero |
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| Kiki, Love to Love | Kiki, el amor se hace | Paco León | Spain |
| Captain Fantastic | Matt Ross | United States | |
| Pelé: Birth of a Legend | Jeff Zimbalist & Michael Zimbalist | United States | |
| Pinches actores | Guillaume Dufour & Jerome Dufour | France | |
| One Man and His Cow | La Vache | Mohamed Hamidi | France |
| All Roads Lead to Rome | Ella Lemhagen |
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| Rumbos paralelos | Rafael Montero | Mexico | |
| Above and Below | Nicolas Steiner |
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