Film Invasion – L.A. & Lima

2026 FI-Lima Official Selection:  Short Film – Animation

In the summer of 1988 dry lightning sparked a fire in the parched and drought ridden landscape of Yellowstone Park, igniting a blaze that would scorch over 1.5 million perimeter acres of the park.

Song of Fire, a narrative poem, guides the animation of YELLOWSTONE 88 telling the story of this conflagration that raged unabated for months until a snow of such intense severity extinguished the flames. That winter surviving Fauna, exhausted from fire and weakened by hunger, die in greater numbers than those claimed by the fire. The cosmos turns from one season to another and another and life in the park begins anew.

Director(s): Jerry van de Beek, Betsy De Fries
Writer(s): Betsy De Fries
Producer(s): Betsy De Fries
Key Cast: Peter Coyote

Country: United States
South American Premiere

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2026 FI-Lima Official Selection:  Short Film – Comedy

An aging spy and his longtime nemesis meet up to relive their glory days, but their dueling memories clash even more than they ever did.

Director(s): Matthew Lucas
Writer(s): Matthew Lucas
Producer(s): Sofia Snyder, Rick Adleson
Key Cast: Richard Riehle, Vernon Wells

Country: United States
South American Premiere

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2026 FI-Lima Official Selection: Comedy – Featurette

While getting ready for a date with the girl of his dreams, Marco is visited by a man in the TV who starts talking to him. And he has a request to make… Hallucination or reality? That’s what Marco will have to figure out in this absurd and slapstick comedy.

Director(s): Leonardo Valenti
Writer(s): Leonardo Valenti, Fabio Fieri, Marco Marianucci                       Producer(s): Leonardo Valenti
Key Cast: Fabio Fieri, Marco Marianucci, Silvia Niri, Giulia Romana Calvino

Country: Italy
South American Premiere

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2026 FI-Lima Official Selection:  Short Film – Horror

SUSIE has just moved into her new apartment. Upset and exhausted over her numerous attempts to get a hold of her “situationship” fling, MIA, on the phone, she goes about unpacking. As she is unpacking things in her closet, she comes across a mysterious black shoe box. Just as curiosity takes hold of her to see what’s inside, a jarring knock at her door snaps her attention. It’s Mia who finally shows up at her door, and to Susie’s ever-growing frustration, Mia pays special attention to the mysterious shoe box. And what they both find inside changes their relationship forever.

Director(s): Gina Marie Inverso
Writer(s): Gina Marie Inverso
Producer(s): Gina Marie Inverso, Dani Lasser
Key Cast: Danielle Titus, Sam Spoll

Country: United States

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2026 FI-Lima Official Selection:  Short Film – Arthouse/Experimental

Award winning Zero Budget film. When a Latine artist living in the Bay Area has had enough with impossible living conditions they use the Old Magicks to help their people. Seeing Latine, Queer, and unhoused people being mistreated, and victims of gentrification, Luma decides to call upon the Jaguar God. Little did Luma know, they would become a vessel for this ageless protector. And so would many others.

Director(s): Luma Jaguar
Writer(s): Haus Of Jaguar
Producer(s): A Surge Film
Key Cast: Luma Jaguar

Country: United States
South American Premiere

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2026 FI-Lima Official Selection: Documentary – Feature Film

In a paradisiacal river in Southern France, a world-travelled cinematographer stranded by Covid films a poetic and introspective movie in relationship with the animal life around his home. But soon, a drought imperils the river source, threatening the very existence of the animals he has grown to love. Will formidable power of life conquer?

Director(s): guillaume mazille
Writer(s): guillaume mazille, Jade Maitre
Producer(s): guillaume mazille

Country: France

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2026 FI-Lima Official Selection: Horror – Featurette

An Assassin is cursed by the souls of the people he killed in the past. Now, he is a Grim Reaper, a demon who receives constant punishments because of his sins. In this context, an Entity appears, a neutral being who oversees the Assassin’s curse. Consequently, and on a journey to hell, both characters confront each other in a philosophical-moral debate about the meaning of forgiveness, the prison of guilt, and the existence of redemption.

Director(s): Arnold Sotomayor                                                                                         Writer(s): Arnold Sotomayor
Producer(s): Arnold Sotomayor, Domenica Granados, Sergio Monchón
Key Cast: Carlos Licapa, Adam Gonzales

Country: Peru
South American Premiere

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2026 FI-Lima Official Selection:  Short Film – SciFi 

Micro-Short Dystopian Sci-fi. When society divides into sectors, drones are everywhere, who can you really trust?

Director(s): Karen Elaine Lutz
Writer(s): Karen Elaine Lutz, Erika Arlee
Producer(s): Karen Elaine Lutz
Key Cast: Karen Elaine Lutz

Country: United States
South American Premiere

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2026 FI-Lima Official Selection: Documentary – Featurette

Sergei Paradjanov (1924-1990), a brilliant filmmaker of Armenian origin, remains a legendary figure in the opposition to the Soviet regime which landed him in prison, notably for homosexuality, for years. A pilgrimage to his house in Yerevan by a French director of Russian origin who admires his work turns into a mystical experience in search of the spirit of the Master.

Director(s): Jérôme AMIMER
Producer(s): Jérôme AMIMER, Vilen Gharibyan
Key Cast: Jérôme AMIMER, Serge AVEDIKIAN

Country: France

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