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- DirectorThomas KronthalerStarsJúlia Hernández FortunatoFriedrich MückeCarla OrtizEl que cree que entre el mundo espiritual y el material, entre el deseo y la realidad, no existe conexión alguna está equivocado. Impulsado por la curiosidad y el afán de conocer nuevos mundos, el joven Alois, deja su patria bávara y, pasando por las profundidades del Walchensee (lago cerca de Munich), emerge de las aguas del lago Titicaca, en Bolivia. En Copacabana, Alois se casa con Elena con quien explora el enigmático mundo andino; tienen un único hijo, piloto civil, que muere muy joven en un accidente aéreo, dejando huérfana a su hija Alfonsina y viuda a Rosa, su bella esposa, que trabaja de azafata. Algunos años después muere también Alois, dejando completamente solas a las tres mujeres. Alfonsina, ahora una linda muchacha de 14 años, crece en un ambiente de mezcla cultural, entre música, dirndl * , jarras de cerveza, sincretismo andino y ch´allas. Mientras que su abuela Elena se aferra al recuerdo de Alois, su madre busca rehacer, sin mucho éxito, su vida afectiva; cuando Rosa conoce a Felipe (un ambiguo hombre de negocios), está convencida de haber encontrado al hombre que curará las heridas dejadas por la muerte de su marido; Felipe, sin embargo, solo aprovecha el ansia de amar de Rosa para hacer realidad su verdadero plan: convencer a Elena en vender la casa de los geranios, la antigua morada donde viven las tres mujeres. Alfonsina, por otro lado, está viviendo sus propios conflictos afectivos: su mejor amiga Tere ya tiene novio y ella se siente más sola e incomprendida; no son suficiente consuelo a su malestar, las postales distribuidas a turistas de paso y posteriormente recibidas de vuelta. Por el contrario estas tarjetas, provenientes de todas partes del mundo, alimentan su anhelo de vivir sus propias experiencias y conocer otras realidades, ese mismo afán que trajo a su abuelo desde Baviera a Copacabana. En medio de esta confusión emocional, aparece Daniel, un joven estudiante de ornitología de Munich que a los ojos de Alfonsina parece el vivo retrato de su abuelo Alois. Será justamente Daniel quien proporcionará a la joven las alas necesarias, para que ella encuentre el difícil camino que transita de la adolescencia a la edad adulta. Escribeme - Postales a Copacabana nos revela tres mundos, tres generaciones, tres mujeres, cada una de ellas, a su manera, en busca de su destino. El otro gran protagonista de la historia, con su majestuosa belleza, es el lago Titicaca, soberbio marco geográfico de una historia de sentimientos, anhelos, frustraciones y esperanzas. *dirndl: Traje típico de Bavaria
- 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.
- DirectorPaolo AgazziStarsDarío GrandinettiGustavo AngaritaElías SerranoHandsome 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.
- DirectorTonchy AntezanaStarsChristian CastilloA 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.
- DirectorJuan Carlos ValdiviaStarsDemián BichirKate del CastilloAlberto EtcheverryAfter 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.
- DirectorJuan Carlos ValdiviaStarsDino GarcíaMaría Renée PrudencioClaudia LoboA schoolteacher in the small city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra has a passionate affair with his frigid wife's sister--despite the risk of having to confront not only his wife, but also his dubious father-in-law.
- DirectorFernando VargasStarsIsabel SantosJorge Ortiz SánchezPaola RíosBeggining in La Higuera, 1967 where the body of Ernesto Che Guevara is laid out and later secretly buried, Di buen dia a papa returns to this location over ten year intervals to focus on three generations of women affected by the event.
- DirectorAntonio EguinoStarsNéstor YujiriEdmundo VillarroelDavid SàntallaRacial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.
- 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.
- DirectorPaolo AgazziStarsDiego BertieSalvador del SolarLucía JiménezIts about corruption in government institutions, in this specific case, the police. How the master plan to steal a bank truck finds its origins in the highest spheres of society. It is a good movie and the actress is awesomely good.
- DirectorPaolo AgazziStarsCristian MercadoRosendo PazJosé VélizJusto Pascual is an innocent man from Tarija, Bolivia, who just wants to marry the woman he loves, Casilda, by buying her a machine that will make her job easier. But he gets scammed along the way and losses all his money before even buying his chance to marry Casilda.
- DirectorRodrigo BellottStarsErika AndiaMiguel ValverdeCacho MendietaJacinto 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.
- DirectorAntonio EguinoStarsDiego BertieCarla OrtizMilton CortezEnd of the 20's. Alfonso a young writer brought up in France, arrives to an adventurous mining town (Uyuni) in the midst of the Bolivian high plateau. Here he meets the beautiful Claudina a sensual, strong willed chola, la "Misqui simi" ("The one with the sweet lips"). Uyuni radiates a strange magnetism, it is charged with a collective euphoria produced by the bewitching mineral. The lives of the characters enter a whirl of passion, ambition and frustration.
- DirectorKief DavidsonRichard Ladkani'The Devil's Miner' tells the story of 14-year-old Basilio who worships the devil for protection while working in a Bolivian silver mine to support his family.
- 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.
- DirectorPaolo AgazziStarsGuillermo AguirreGuido AlvarezGuillermo BarriosA truck driver and a young shoe cleaner travel through Bolivia for five days.
- DirectorMarcos LoayzaStarsPaolo VargasLuigi AntezanaAlejandro MarañonYoung 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.
- DirectorKiro RussoStarsNarciso ChoquecallataAnastasia Daza LópezFelix Espejo EspejoOne day, Elder's father dies. He goes on to live with his grandmother in a mining town and manages to get a job thanks to his godfather. It doesn't take long until Elder screws up, which leads him to find out a secret about his father.
- DirectorRaúl de la FuenteThree women work in the Potosi mines.
- DirectorVioleta AyalaDan FallshawWhat happens when people with disabilities fight for survival in Bolivia?
- DirectorMarcos LoayzaIn the midst of the debates for the Constitutional reform promoted by President Evo Morales, Marcos Loayza travels the Bolivian territory making a survey of the demands and dreams of those who will be, in the end, the subjects of change.
- 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.
- DirectorAntonio EguinoStarsLuis AldanaEddy BravoGermán CalderónExplores the Pacific War, between Bolivia, Chile and Peru in the late 1800s.
- 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.
- DirectorPaolo AgazziStarsEddy BravoAlberto CornejoOscar CortésInspired by the award-winning novel "Hijo de opa" by Gaby Vallejo, "Los Hermanos Cartagena" is the story of two brothers, united by ties of blood but separated by hatred, resentment, the thirst for revenge.
- DirectorTonchy AntezanaStarsAlejandro LoayzaMamani ElmerElmer MamaniBolivia vs Paraguay, chaco war,
- DirectorMarcos LoayzaStarsAugustin MendietaMelita del CarpioFernando Arze EchalarCivil servant Jesús Martinez suffers a heart attack. Abandoned by his wife and stuck with hospital bills he can't afford, he assumes the identity of a terminally ill patient with the same name.
- DirectorGermán MonjeStarsOmar DuranbogerMartín JoffréSoledad ArdayaPedro, an old bohemian, is admitted to the Obrero Hospital, the most popular in the city of La Paz. The room where it is destined is shared by different people.
- DirectorMartín BoulocqStarsAndrea CamponovoDaniel AbudGiovana AguirreMeditations on what it means to be a woman who is neither a wife nor a mother in modern day Bolivia as experienced by Eugenia, a not-quite-young, not-quite-middle-aged woman endeavoring to find herself after leaving an abusive relationship.
- DirectorDenis ChaponStarsLuzmila CarpioWhen Abuela Grillo sings, rain comes. But one day, a farmer hits her with a stone, tired of her constant singing. Saddened by his action, Abuelo Grillo decides to leave, and a drought follows.
- 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.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsDomitila de ChungaraEusebio GirondaFederico VallejoA documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia. The film starts with previous massacres and represions (starting 1942 in Catavi), before and after the bolivian Revolution, and puts the finger on the people responsible. All of this according to the director's belief of movies having to show what people wanted: and people wanted to know causes and responsibilities. A little reading on the history of Bolivia after the revolution should led to a better understanding of this film, for it was directed to people who actually lived the process (some of them acting in the movie), and many meaningful sequences and details may not be understood in all their symbolic and historic value.
- DirectorRodrigo Otero HeraudStarsHipólito Peralta CcamaA visual poem with overwhelming images of the Andean mountains about a spiritual master of the Andean tradition who emerges in different regions of the Cordilleras and disappears again, like a ghost who wants to take one last look at the sacred mountains, and he converses with the water, the rocks, the men, and finds out under what disease the human race of the present suffers.
- DirectorKiro RussoStarsMax Bautista UchasaraJulio César TiconaIsrael HurtadoA symphony of the city in the heights, the illness of a worker, the nightmare and his redemption.