12 Essential Bolivian Films
In 2014, The Ministry of Culture and the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés asked 50 critics and experts to vote for the 12 essential Bolivian films.
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- DirectorJosé María Velasco MaidanaStarsJuanita TallansierArturo BordaDámaso Eduardo DelgadoThe story of a an Inca Princess who falls in love with a Captain of the Spanish army.
- DirectorAugusto RocaJorge RuizStarsSebastiana KespiEsteban LupiPaulino LupiThe story of a poor girl who leaves her starving family and sheep for a more prosperous village. Her grandfather finds her and tries to convince her to return to her home.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsElsa AntequeraNéstor CárdenasBenedicta HuancaWhile her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsMarcelino YanahuayaBenedicta MendozaVicente Verneros SalinasThe reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
- DirectorAntonio EguinoStarsNéstor YujiriEdmundo VillarroelDavid SàntallaRacial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.
- DirectorPaolo AgazziStarsGuillermo AguirreGuido AlvarezGuillermo BarriosA truck driver and a young shoe cleaner travel through Bolivia for five days.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsJulio BaltazarPercy BrunZulema BustamanteSebastian Mamani returns to his Aymara community from which he was expelled long ago. He is carrying the great mask of death, he must dance 'til death.
- DirectorMarcos LoayzaStarsÓscar GarcíaJorge Ortiz SánchezJorge MendívilTwo saint makers are ordered by a gangster to construct a Virgin and deliver it to a town in the jungle. Accompanied by their friend, a gambler, they proceed to have misadventures which test their respective faiths in God and gambling.
- DirectorRodrigo BellottStarsAlexandra AponteRoberto UrbinaJorge Antonio SaavedraFive teenagers in the U.S. and Bolivia try to make sense of their sexuality and the complexity of their identity.
- DirectorMartín BoulocqStarsJuan Pablo MilánRoberto GuilhonAlejandra LanzaBerto is an introverted, lonely, young man living in a small city in Bolivia. Overwhelmed by a difficult past, Berto tries to sell his most precious belonging - an old '65 Volkswagen, which he inherited from his grandfather - in order to leave Bolivia and start a new life in Madrid. His days go by trying to sell the car as he thinks of new ways to find a buyer, cruising the city and going out with Victor, his obnoxious, sex-addicted friend, who works in the neighborhood video store. Their routine changes with the unexpected return of Camila, Victor's girlfriend, wherein Berto becomes increasingly conflicted by the feelings he has for her. Camila and Victor enter a downward spiral when Camila picks up Victor one night driving Berto's car. Victor confronts her about being seen hanging out with a wealthy guy one night in the city and an intense fight on the street separates them, forcing Camila to seek comfort in Berto as we find Victor into the old VW with a random woman one night after a run-in with Camila in a local club. With the car as a symbol of stasis, of these characters' feelings of being stuck and trapped, Berto finally frees himself and begins the arduous journey to a new life.
- DirectorJuan Carlos ValdiviaStarsNinón del CastilloPascual LoayzaNicolás FernándezFor a rich upper-class family locked into their own little world, Bolivia's social changes threaten to burst their bubble.
- DirectorJuan Carlos ValdiviaStarsJuan Carlos ValdiviaElio OrtízFelipe RománA 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.