12 Essential Bolivian Films
by max-sv | created - 08 May 2016 | updated - 12 May 2016 | PublicIn 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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1. Warawara (1930)
69 min | Drama
The story of a an Inca Princess who falls in love with a Captain of the Spanish army.
Director: José María Velasco Maidana | Stars: Juanita Tallansier, Arturo Borda, Dámaso Eduardo Delgado, Eduardo Camacho
Votes: 66
2. Come Back, Sebastiana (1953)
28 min | Short
The 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.
Directors: Augusto Roca, Jorge Ruiz | Stars: Sebastiana Kespi, Esteban Lupi, Paulino Lupi, Irene Lázaro
Votes: 74
3. Ukamau (1966)
75 min | Drama
While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
Director: Jorge Sanjinés | Stars: Elsa Antequera, Néstor Cárdenas, Benedicta Huanca, Benedicta Mendoza
Votes: 252
4. Blood of the Condor (1969)
70 min | Crime, Drama
The reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
Director: Jorge Sanjinés | Stars: Marcelino Yanahuaya, Benedicta Mendoza, Vicente Verneros Salinas, Danielle Caillet
Votes: 623
5. Chuquiago (1977)
86 min | Drama
Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.
Director: Antonio Eguino | Stars: Néstor Yujiri, Edmundo Villarroel, David Sàntalla, Tatiana Aponte
Votes: 143
6. Mi socio (1983)
78 min | Drama
A truck driver and a young shoe cleaner travel through Bolivia for five days.
Director: Paolo Agazzi | Stars: Guillermo Aguirre, Guido Alvarez, Guillermo Barrios, Juana Fernández
Votes: 199
7. The Secret Nation (1989)
128 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Sanjinés | Stars: Julio Baltazar, Percy Brun, Zulema Bustamante, Juan Carlos Calcina
Votes: 209
8. Cuestión de fe (1995)
89 min | Drama
Two 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.
Director: Marcos Loayza | Stars: Óscar García, Jorge Ortiz Sánchez, Jorge Mendívil, Marta Monzón
Votes: 183
9. Dependencia sexual (2003)
104 min | Drama
Five teenagers in the U.S. and Bolivia try to make sense of their sexuality and the complexity of their identity.
Director: Rodrigo Bellott | Stars: Alexandra Aponte, Roberto Urbina, Jorge Antonio Saavedra, Ronica V. Reddick
Votes: 812
10. Lo más bonito y mis mejores años (2005)
93 min | Drama
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... See full summary »
Director: Martín Boulocq | Stars: Juan Pablo Milán, Roberto Guilhon, Alejandra Lanza, Alicia Saavedra
Votes: 90
11. Southern District (2009)
Unrated | 108 min | Drama
For a rich upper-class family locked into their own little world, Bolivia's social changes threaten to burst their bubble.
Director: Juan Carlos Valdivia | Stars: Ninón del Castillo, Pascual Loayza, Nicolás Fernández, Juan Pablo Koria
Votes: 396
12. Yvy Maraey (2013)
107 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Carlos Valdivia | Stars: Juan Carlos Valdivia, Elio Ortíz, Felipe Román, Francisco Acosta
Votes: 94
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