Augusto Cabada

Movies

Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of my Village
Writer
Sistu and her small community in the Andes discover the magic of cinema. This meeting causes a stir but also confronts them with their culture and highlights the limitations of the community to understand and read Spanish. As a solution, they choose Sistu so that every week he goes to town to see a movie and tells it to everyone in the square.
Dos Besos
Writer
The linking of three characters in a kind of mutual deceit. Different points of view, attitudes and a look at relationships marked by social and cultural differences.
Muero por Muriel
Writer
Muero por Muriel
Director
The Feast of the Goat
Screenplay
Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.
Under the Skin
Writer
Passion, criminal instincts and traditions melt together in this film that shakes our understanding of crime.
Sin compasión
Screenplay
Lima, 1980s. Based upon Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
In the Mouth of the Wolf
Writer
The military anti-terrorist army takes control of "Chuspi", an unknown and faraway small village, isolated by the terrorist group "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path). A soldier called Vitin Luna, and other young soldiers face an invisible, perhaps superior force. Their unit is commanded by a brutal lieutenant who declares the entire village guilty of treason. In the face of this crisis, Vitin must choose between blind obedience and his own conscience.