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- As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
- 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.
- Two U.S. ecologists travel to a remote town in South America to investigate what appears to be unnatural decay of the environment. They soon discover the cause is a horrific curse that's been haunting the lands for centuries.
- Ernesto Che Guevara - possibly the single most iconic figure of the 20th century. More than just a handsome face on a million t-shirts, he remains a symbol of revolutionary struggle against imperialism and injustice. 50 years ago, Che Guevara emerged from the Cuban Revolution as the quintessential guerrilla fighter and eight years later, that's how he died. Last Autumn, Joe Higgins set out to discover what this man - whose courage and integrity he has always admired - means to the people of Che's homeland today. 40 years after Guevara's death, Latin America is in the midst of sweeping political change. After decades of ruthless dictatorships, a powerful democratic Left has emerged, echoing Che's ideals of unity and independence. In 1952, when a young medical student set out to explore a continent on the back of a motorcycle, what he saw changed his life. But how much has changed for the people whose freedom he fought and died for?"
- In the Prison X series, you can step inside an infamous prison through the journey of seven characters and a devil with a mind of her own.
- Equal parts documentary, road film, and ethnographic recording, Collasuyo makes most sense as a symphony of the nation of Bolivia.
- How are biographies charted? How is identity constructed? Can we relive our past, reinvent it, rearrange or recycle it? Can we really know who we are if we ignore where do we come from?
- Berto 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.
- The new hard-hitting documentary, The Big Sellout, challenges current economic orthodoxy in contending that the dogmatic claims of the international business establishment for neo-liberal development policies are not supported by modern economic science. More importantly, it dramatically demonstrates how the implementation of these policies is having disastrous consequences for millions of ordinary people around the globe.
- In a post apocalyptic world, Wars, driven by men, had contaminated water. Soldiers are now in search for the only thing that can save their lives, or take it away from them.
- An exploration of the indigenous peoples of Bolivia, their religion, and their world-view.
- Today is international 'Quit-your-job-and-follow-your-dream Day'. Here comes a story of a girl who follows her dream and goes to Bolivia to learn to fight for environmental justice. Chihiro is a Dutch/Bolivian wannabe environmentalist who feels stuck and alienated in the humdrum of city life. She ventures out to Bolivia to meet people who advocate Rights for Mother Earth. As she is developing her relationship with nature, she stumbles over her own roots: how to relate to her own estranged Bolivian family? How to reconnect on all levels?
- It's 1933. She is at the middle of the war, fighting to keep people alive. However, Albertina Suarez can't control the storm of feelings she has developed for someone who is so close to her.