¿Dina Boluarte unworthy more than Shining path? The rhetorical question arises about the last Lima Film Festival. The whole public stood up to the shout of “Dina, murderer, the people repudiate you!”, After the projection of “Uyariy” (2025), Javier Corcuera’s documentary on the protests of 2023. But no one is outraged by the appearance of Maritza Garrido Lecca in “Stigma” (1986), within the framework of the same film festival. It is true that they are two very different proposals. One is a complaint documentary and the other is an experimental short of 13 minutes. One is a premiere and the other is the restoration of a 1986 film. But the theme goes beyond. Because at this point no one is surprised by political bias in our historical memory. Everyone assumes that the Lima Film Festival is a leftist preserve and that cinema – and culture in general – is a land that belongs to them. The fault is not from the left, which wins for Walk Over. It is from the right. Because except very few exceptions, on the right he never interested the discussion of ideas. They thought that winning the royal battle would also win the battle of memory. And perhaps education is the only item in which the opening to the market does not seem to have improved the status quo. But although very few people read history books and watch Peruvian films, the Cultural Capital Percola down. The perfect example is antifujimorism, which began as the protest of an informed and minority elite enquista in partisan politics and the written press, and ended – then thirty years old – in a common sense assumed by people who did not even live the Fujimorist decade. The story is written like this.
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