Beto Benitez

The Innocents (2025)

Cara de Ángel's sexuality is about to explode. His masculinity is constantly being tested, threatened by Colorete and the pack from his neighborhood. To prove his manhood, he joins a robbery; however, driven by his hormones and his attraction to Gabriela ...

Zafari (2025)

In a small zoo, the arrival of the hippopotamus Zafari is celebrated by neighbours of opposing social classes. Ana, Edgar and their son Bruno watch all the action from the windows of their decadent high-class building. Amidst a chaos of food, water and ele ...

Ramón and Ramón (2025)

During the COVID-19 lockdown in Lima, Ramón, a gay man in his thirties, receives the ashes of his estranged father. Unable to hold a funeral, he sets out to return the remains to his father's native village of Mito. Along the way, he meets Mateo, a striki ...

The Erection of Toribio Bardelli (2023)

After the loss of their mother, a dysfunctional family is pressed to re-examine their lives. As father and children come to terms with their own existence, this journey turns into a tender and subtle meditation on grief. ...

I'll wait until they call my name (2021)

A theatrical work that talks about the disappeared in the years of political violence in Peru, is taken to present Andean communities. In each place of presentation, the fiction will be confronted with reality. ...

Autoerotic (2021)

Bruna is a conflicted teenager in search of exploring her sexuality. Through a dating website, she will start a relationship that overcomes her teenage spirit making her confront the freedom of her body, reconnecting with her true identity. ...

Contactado (2020)

An aging self-proclaimed prophet who revisits his past as a spiritual guru after an eager young follower entices him to return to preaching. ...

We're All Sailors (2018)

Tolya, his brother and the captain live on a fishing ship, stranded in a port of Chimbote. The company is bankrupted, the ship hasn't fished in eight weeks and the rest of the crew has returned to their countries. With no money and with practically no poss ...

Babysitting 2 (2015)

Franck and his girlfriend Sonya, plus some of their friends go on holiday in Brazil. Franck, his friends, two girls and Sonya's grandmother leave to visit a cave, but everything goes wrong and their crazy adventures begin. ...

Paquete 3 (2015)

El Cholo, a Peruvian taxi driver, flees from justice in his country and comes to Venezuela in search for a better future. After running into a gang of con-men who leave him penniless, he meets a peculiar group of Latin Americans who work for a gangster kno ...

KM 72 (2015)

The millionaire Diego Verastegui has been murdered at his house, and somebody has taken a valuable briefcase from the safe-deposit box. Dimas -Verastegui's bodyguard- comes back to the house and finds three suspects: Carlos, the millionaire's son, Anna Kar ...

3 Beauties (2015)

Perla is obsessed with having a beauty queen in the family and she is willing to do whatever it takes to make her dream come true. ...

Bad Hair (2014)

A nine-year-old boy's preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale. ...

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas (2012)

In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the r ...

Colombiana (2011)

After witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ...

Brother (2010)

Brothers Daniel and Julio fight to escape a violent and poor Caracas neighborhood by playing soccer. Daniel wishes to go professional while Julio supports the family with dirty money. The opportunity of a lifetime comes when a talent scout invites them to ...

Macuro (2008)

Postcards from Leningrad (2007)

During the armed uprisings of the sixties in Venezuela, a young guerrilla woman has to give birth in secret. To her surprise, her daughter is the first to be born on Mother's Day and photos appear in the press. Since then, both have to flee. Disguises, fal ...

Cyrano Fernández (2007)

Cyrano, Roxana and Cristian star in a love triangle that takes place in one of the most shocking urban scenarios in the world: the labyrinthine sides and stairs of a Venezuelan neighbourhood. The story of Cyrano Fernández is in some way that of all people ...

Contactado (2020)

An aging self-proclaimed prophet who revisits his past as a spiritual guru after an eager young follower entices him to return to preaching. ...

From Afar (2015)

Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever. ...

Paquete 3 (2015)

El Cholo, a Peruvian taxi driver, flees from justice in his country and comes to Venezuela in search for a better future. After running into a gang of con-men who leave him penniless, he meets a peculiar group of Latin Americans who work for a gangster kno ...

KM 72 (2015)

The millionaire Diego Verastegui has been murdered at his house, and somebody has taken a valuable briefcase from the safe-deposit box. Dimas -Verastegui's bodyguard- comes back to the house and finds three suspects: Carlos, the millionaire's son, Anna Kar ...

Brother (2010)

Brothers Daniel and Julio fight to escape a violent and poor Caracas neighborhood by playing soccer. Daniel wishes to go professional while Julio supports the family with dirty money. The opportunity of a lifetime comes when a talent scout invites them to ...

Libertador Morales, el justiciero (2009)

An honest motorcycle-taxi driver and law-abiding citizen, Libertador Morales dons a disguise to become El Justiciero, an avenging motorcycle hero who foils the crime spree of a local street gang in Caracas. ...