All About My Mother is a 1999 comedy-drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz, Rosa Maria Sardà, and Fernando Fernán Gómez.
Barbara Sukowa is a German actress of screen and stage and singer. She has received three German Film Awards for Best Actress, three Bavarian Film Awards, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, Venice Film Festival Award, as well as nominations for European Film Awards, César Awards and Grammy Awards.
Pourān Derakh'shandeh is an Iranian film director, producer, screen writer, and researcher.
The 8th Cannes Film Festival was held from 26 April to 10 May 1955. The Golden Palm went to the US film Marty by Delbert Mann. The festival opened with Du rififi chez les hommes by Jules Dassin and closed with Carmen Jones by Otto Preminger.
Brad Mays is a multi award-winning independent filmmaker and stage director, living and working in Los Angeles, California.
The 12th Cannes Film Festival was held from 30 April to 15 May 1959. The Palme d'Or went to the Orfeu Negro by Marcel Camus. The festival opened with Les Quatre Cents Coups, directed by François Truffaut and closed with The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by George Stevens.
Sabina Berman Goldberg is a writer and journalist. Her work deals mainly with issues related to diversity and its obstacles. She is a four-time winner of the National Playwriting Award in Mexico and has twice won the National Journalism Award. Her plays have been staged in Canada, North America, Latin America, and Europe. Her novel, Me has been translated into 11 languages and published in over 33 countries, including Spain, France, the United States, England, and Israel.
Reza Mirkarimi is an Iranian screenwriter and film director.
The Duke of Burgundy is a 2014 British erotic romance drama film written and directed by Peter Strickland, and starring Sidse Babett Knudsen as Cynthia and Chiara D'Anna as Evelyn.
Embrace of the Serpent is a 2015 internationally co-produced adventure drama film directed by Ciro Guerra, and written by Guerra and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal. Shot almost entirely in black and white, the film follows two journeys made thirty years apart by the indigenous shaman Karamakate in the Colombian Amazonian jungle, one with Theo, a German ethnographer, and the other with Evan, an American botanist, both of whom are searching for the rare plant yakruna. It was inspired by the travel diaries of Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes, and dedicated to lost Amazonian cultures.
Magdyel Olibama Ugaz del Castillo is a Peruvian actress and television presenter. Among her several works, she is best known for her starring role as Teresa Collazos in the Al Fondo Hay Sitio television series.
Sander Vos is a Dutch film editor.
Guadalupe Urbina is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter, poet, and activist. Urbina is a folk musician whose compositions reflect the oral tradition of Guanacaste, her birthplace. She has performed in both Europe and the United States and has won various awards for her work domestically and internationally.
Paper Dove is a 2003 Peruvian drama film directed by Fabrizio Aguilar. It was selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Margarita is a 2016 Peruvian comedy film directed by Frank Pérez-Garland and written by Vanessa Saba. Starring Giovanni Ciccia, Francisca Aronsson, Melania Urbina, Cesar Ritter, Vanessa Saba, Maria Grazia Gamarra and Yvonne Frayssinet. The film was released on September 8, 2016.
Margarita 2 is a 2018 Peruvian comedy film directed by Frank Pérez-Garland and written by Alberto Rojas Apel & Vanessa Saba. It is a sequel to the 2016 Peruvian film Margarita. Starring Giovanni Ciccia, Francisca Aronsson, Melania Urbina, Cesar Ritter, Vanessa Saba, Maria Grazia Gamarra and Yvonne Frayssinet. The film was released on August 2, 2018.
Mañana te cuento is a 2005 Peruvian romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Eduardo Mendoza de Echave in his directorial debut. Starring Melania Urbina, Milene Vásquez, Angie Jibaja, Bruno Ascenzo, Oscar Beltrán, Jason Day and José Manuel Peláez. It premiered on June 2, 2005, in Peruvian theaters.
The Chain is a 2014 Peruvian anthology drama film written, directed and produced by Miguel Barreda. It presents ten stories, ten everyday characters in search of redemption in the midst of chaos, the realization of a dream or, simply, the question of what to do with their free time.
The 27th Lima Film Festival, organized by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, took place from 10–18 August 2023 in Lima, Peru. The awards were announced on 18 August 2023, with Tótem winning the Trophy Spondylus.
Little Red Riding Wolf is a 2023 Spanish-Peruvian comedy film directed by Chus Gutiérrez from a screenplay written by Marta González de Vega who also starred in the feature. It is based on the book and play of the same name by González de Vega. The rest of the cast is made up of Berto Romero, David Guapo, José Mota, Antonio Resines, Elena Irureta, Melania Urbina and Marco Zunino.
