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- Maria Francisca, a wealthy young heiress and her friend Mariana De Castro, a young protestant widow, are accused of witchcraft and taken before the Spanish Inquisition of Lima, Peru.
- This film skewers the audience's prejudices when the subtitles abandon their usual chore of translating what is said and start talking directly to the audience.
- Following his son Gabriel's death, Jorge travels from conservative Bolivia to New York City to confront Gabriel's boyfriend Sebastian.
- In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.
- A sacrifice is about to take place when Nahara appears out of nowhere. She replaces the ordained victim. A stake is plunged into her chest but she doesn't die.
- An introvert city teenager is sent to his father's timber ranch. While trying to figure out his place as the son of the boss he finds himself in a world packed with naturalized violence.
- The feature film "Pocahontas Returns" explores lost values inside our contemporary world and the search for ancient wisdom via the mise-en-abyme of hypermodern New York and neo-baroque Santa Cruz in Bolivia via an interracial love story blended with Telenovela and performance art.
- Based in the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Olalla" tells the story of a gothic and decadent family of genetic vampires who need human blood to survive, and where incest is the only way to maintain the family line.
- In this artistic rendering of De Sade's classic novel, Justine endures extreme torture and violation at the hands of the Marquis De Sade's disciples of pain in a number of perverse practices illustrating that virtue is no match for vice.
- Five teenagers in the U.S. and Bolivia try to make sense of their sexuality and the complexity of their identity.
- After being denied an American visa, a Bolivian professor becomes involved in a web of criminal activities, holds-up the American consulate and falls for a beautiful prostitute from the Bolivian lowlands.
- Vito (at present 70 years old) continues in his random adventures: blackmailed by the Patron, a fearsome drug trafficker who Vito managed to lock up in a maximum security prison, now lives hidden in a small Amazonian town. Gone are the glorious days of truck driver with his truck "My Partner". When Vito finally is placed by the son of the Patron, and is in serious trouble, he has no choice but to seek the help of his former assistant Brillo through his daughter Camila. Will Vito return to travel the roads of Bolivia with his old truck "MY PARTNER"?
- A symphony of the city in the heights, the illness of a worker, the nightmare and his redemption.
- For a rich upper-class family locked into their own little world, Bolivia's social changes threaten to burst their bubble.
- A young German/Bolivian Mennonite risks his life to escape his strict religious Community to find love and freedom in the city.
- Two cousins began to discover their sexuality together in adolescence and they reunite after 10 years: he only recently returned to bachelorhood, and she returned from Buenos Aires, where she opted to specialize in Sexology.
- Due to different circumstances several kids work in the streets of La Paz (Bolivia). While a group of Catholic priests help them they are endangered by organ thieves and drug dealers. When one of the children is kidnapped and the perpetrators evade the Bolivian police the Blessed Virgen Mary intervenes unfolding miraculous events.
- A 33 year old man, an alcoholic since the age of 14, decides to spend his last days of life in the "Elephants Cemetery, a place that is preferred by alcoholics in the city of La Paz, Bolivia.
- An ex-convict returns home in search of a new life and a chance to reconnect with his estranged young daughter, only to be met with resistance from his father-in-law - an influential pastor in the Evangelical community in town.
- Jacinto and Domitila are two indigenous Bolivians, happily married... and the most notorious criminals in the country. When they are paid to transport 50kg of cocaine to the Brazilian border, they embark on a journey that will take them through the jungles, mountains, deserts and cities of Bolivia on a riotous adventure that will test their relationship and make them question their future as criminals. Setting out from El Alto, the highest city in the world, they disguise themselves as a farming couple expecting a baby, with the cocaine hidden in Domitilas false pregnant belly. The man behind the smuggling operation, known as El Negro, is actually a blonde, blue-eyed American with a well-kept secret. Hunting down the criminals are two of the best Anti-narcotics officers in the country a corrupt Lieutenant and his racist cadet. What should have been a simple arrest soon becomes a hilarious game of cat-and-mouse with the criminals outwitting their pursuers at every turn, with the help of a bizarre medley of Bolivian characters and a narrator who sharply exposes all the irony and corruption that comes with Bolivian life. Both a celebration and a parody of Bolivian customs, countryside and culture, 'Who Killed The White Llama?' is a boisterous comedy with a more serious message at its heart: When it comes to poverty, nothing is sacred. Despite the continuing criminal, political and economic scandals that plague the country, the racial divides and the drug-trafficking, the media story that really sweeps the nation concerns the accidental killing of a baby white llama.
- An imprisoned aristocrat purchases condemned women.
- In 1501 the Spanish Inquisition is still in force. Isabel's inebriate father proudly announces his daughter's engagement to Torquemada, a brutal lord, without consulting his lovely daughter and she refuses to agree to the wedding. When his father grabs her on the turret of the lord's castle, there is a struggle as she tries to pull from his grasp, resulting in the old man falling from the rampart to his death below. Clearly this is a tragic accident, but Torquemada - the lord of the palace and surrounding lands - has been publicly humiliated. He accuses Isabel of murder and locks her in his dungeon to await a trial that never comes, for the vicious man intends to use the powers of the Inquisition to torture and destroy the woman who rejected him. Will Isabel be able to resist him and survive?
- A somewhat egotistical and confused film director, tries to get over the separation from his ex by transforming a street violinist into the 'perfect woman' for his next film.
- After suffering a heart attack, retired General José Mendieta is haunted by his past as an officer in Operation Condor, the CIA-backed campaign of political repression in Latin America.
- Gregório is a rustic and idealistic peasant who lives frustrated in the village of Rosillas. Arrogant and bold, he wants to recover the waters of the family's old dam, which were diverted by Colonel Igrejas, an Argentinean farmer who acts in collusion with the town's mayor to benefit the cultivation of his own vines. In the midst of all this, Gregório will have to face the contempt of the residents, the corruption and the socioeconomic power of the elite, leaving aside the love for his little son Olegário, the care for his elderly parents and the love of Paula, the teacher at the school who insists that he go live in the city. How does the one who stays on the land that everyone has decided to leave survives.
- The reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
- Yahel and her companions, Judith and Magdalena are on their way to a market where they end up confronting the Romans and the religious authorities. What begins as a long walk to the market turns into a cruel journey to the cross.
- Handsome entrepeneur Abelardo Rios Clarios arrives in the sleepy little town of Villaserena, rigs up speakers throughout the village, and begins broadcasting "Radio Nobleza". For a small sum of money, they can now buy the opportunity to express publicly what they couldn't say before. Villaserena's closets are quickly emptied of their skeletons, old quarrels are revived and secrets are no longer. Abelardo soon discovers the beautiful Celeste, a beautiful young woman virtually imprisoned behind the walls of her father's house, and romance ensues.
- A man arrives at a hotel located in the mountains of New York to meditate on a decision that is about to change his destiny: A reckoning.
- Fernanda invites her best friends to her country estate in an attempt to forget about her parents' potential divorce. Everything seemed to be going well until she discovers that one of her closest friends is the reason for that divorce.
- Three Norwegian teenaged girlfriends get caught smuggling cocaine out of Bolivia. Why does only one take the fall? Cue a tabloid media storm, professional kidnappers and a behind-bars pregnancy in this sensational exposé.
- Patricia is a young girl who leads a normal life with her boyfriend until after the HIV test, she discovers that was infected with the virus because she had a sporadic relationship. Now she has to face a new reality, the reaction of her family and boyfriend, establishing new relationships.
- When war broke out, a group of soccer players changed the playing field for the battlefield to win one of the most remembered battles in the history of Bolivia. Based on real events, FUERTES tells a glorious episode of courage and passion.
- Sebastian Mamani returns to his Aymara community from which he was expelled long ago. He is carrying the great mask of death, he must dance until he died, in a kind of atonement for the sins that caused his exile and as a way to be reborn in his lost cultural identity.
- Young bootblack Tupah embarks on a frantic quest to find his uncle lost in the Averno, a place where the Andean inhabitants believe that the dead coexist with the living and where everything finds its opposite face.
- From Mennonite musings on the Amazonian pampas to wild Havana nights and bittersweet Rio love songs, if a roller-coaster of same sex desire is what you seek, The Latin Boys will take you there.
- A filmmaker tracing the steps of Swedish explorer Erland Nordeskiold travels with a Guarani Indian from the highlands of La Paz to the swamps in the forests of South Eastern Bolivia, a place where uncontacted indigenous still exist. Philosophical Road Movie into the heart of Guarani culture of Bolivia translates ancient knowledge and explores the importance of the other in the construction of our identity.
- A taxi driver gets caught up in a deadly operation when he steals the identity of a passenger.
- Trying to save his son, an alcoholic bus driver gets involved in a human trafficking case.
- It is the year 2058. Maria Ana, an old Woman lives alone. Her husband Alesandro died years earlier due to a terminal illness. Memory Corp is a company that offers its users the opportunity to see in detail specific moments from their past, allowing them to relive memories via a connection made through neuroscientific technology. Maria Ana goes to Memory Corp every day to meet with Alesandro and relive moments with the love of her life, but one day an error occurs in the system that causes the loss of her entire past, taking Alesandro with it and completely altering her current reality.
- Through recreation of historical events, this is the story of Bolivia's indigenous people's struggle for their sovereignty, lost due to Spanish colonization and oppression. Bolivian heroes, whose stories are absent in official history, are finally told.
- Diego Revollo compares his hearing impairment, which appears out of the blue and has no obvious cause, like being underwater. Might movies turn into a kind of healing?
- Based on the classic fairytale "La Barbe Bleue" (Bluebeard, 1697) by Charles Perrault, author of Cinderella, which tells the story of a wealthy and feared aristocrat with a blue beard who has the bad habit of killing his wives.
- In the Bolivian Titicaca Lake, Lucía (10) faces a range of new, conflicting emotions when her father leaves. Lucía builds her daily life around the wait for her dad's return.
- Kunturi is a 13-year old boy living a traditional life with his family near Uyuni, a salt lake. They cut bricks of salt by hand, which they use to exchange for other products of the the Andes. One spring, his father takes him on his first caravan. That travel will teach him who he is as a young boy and a Quechua. By the end, he discovers what his grandfather means by "the gift of Pachamama".
- Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.