Ojos Que No Ven (2003)
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Considered "One of Francisco Lombardi’s best films" (acclaimed Peruvian film director) and nominated at the San Sebastian Film Festival 2003, "Ojos Que No Ven" captures the widespread situations and the devastating consequences of a government dominated by manipulation and corruption. September 2002, a television channel in Peru exposes a video in which Vladimiro Montesinos, Director of Intelligence Services and advisor to President Alberto Fujimori, is paying an opposition congressman for his "services". This was the pivotal point that allowed the unveiling of a monstrous corruption web that reached judges, state attorneys, the military, businessmen, politicians, newspaper and television channel owners, all recorded by Montesinos, in his obsession to keep the power with secretly hidden cameras, while negotiating financial "arrangements." The airing of this first video generated a political scandal that resulted in the fall of the regime and uncovered a web of corruption that reached never-seen-before dimensions. "Ojos Que No Ven" is not a political film; rather politics is the argument in which the stories are developed. This is not a film about Montesinos or Fujimori, but about human beings that in some way find themselves affected by the situation that surrounds them. Through six parallel stories that develop during this time of deep crisis in the country, Lombardi narrates the moral decomposition that flooded the different strata and generations of the Peruvian society.