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A Catastrophic Road Movie documentary in search of a virtuous politician ... that's if he is not extinct ! Antonio , Einari, Ivan ( and a makeshift boom ) travel from Helsinki to Barcelona, Buenos Aires to Montevideo and to the desert of Bolivia in search of a utopia ,an ideal. Something concrete on which to build a new future'
Dolkar is a 26-year-old living in exile in Delhi. An unexpected encounter with a figure from her past sets off a flurry of memories she had long repressed regarding the journey that brought her here.
A documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia.
Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.
In a remote Peruvian city, lives Honorata Vilca, an illiterate woman of Quechua descent who sells candies more than 20 years ago, with the rain will cry to the sky itself.
A Bolivian miner belonging to the pirquiñeros (independent workers that extracts ore in dangerous places abandoned by mining companies considered depleted) struggles to get some mineral by drilling the rock only with a chisel and a hammer.
About ten thousand people enter daily into Posokoni, the largest tin mine in Bolivia, and make their way into primordial darkness.
A group of ancient Tibetan nomads live in the Qilian Mountains in western China. Their home is a tent made of yak hair. They change their location with the seasons — to allow their cattle and sheep to eat the best grass, while protecting the vegetation of the pasture. They stick to their traditional beliefs. The women chant scriptures from time to time while turning prayer wheels. In the evening, devout rituals are performed in front of small portraits of the Panchen Lama and the Dalai Lama. During migration, the families help each other pack their belongings and load them onto yaks; they ride horses, sing pastoral songs, and drive cattle and sheep along the ancient nomadic route. This film documents their journey — from the spring to the autumn. It is a spiritual and a practical life: Sheep are exchanged for yaks, wool for tea, fried noodles for money. Every cloud over the mountain has a divine nature; the sun and the moon are the Panchen Lama and the Dalai Lama. (Shot June 1995.)
In La Paz -as opposed to many other cities- the rich live below, which is the Southern District. Life goes on without major mishaps in a large house surrounded by a beautiful garden. It is a wonderful world, a great bubble of comfort, where different personal spheres coexist: the mother, along with her three children and the Aymara inhabitants of the house. The drama surfaces slowly, without narrative ploys, observing day-to-day activities until internal and external forces make the bubble burst. The film relates the story of the final days of an upper-class family, at a time when the country is undergoing social changes.
A documentary centered on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's (which was urged by the U.S.) effort to eradicate coca crops, and the man who would come to represent them, Evo Morales.
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 'til death.
Composed of 28 static-camera scenes from everyday (occupied)-Tibetan life, each picture (without narration) a "narrative" lasting several minutes, these 28 views explore the contradictions between the traditional way of life and modernism's obvious invasion of Tibet.
Eugenia, a young Bolivian middle-class woman, decides to separate from her husband, leave her job and move to her father's house in another city. She wants to start a different life. As time goes by she gets disappointed with her surrounding environment until one day she receives a notice that will put her long-awaited independence at risk.
This documentary follows the whole process of a celestial burial ceremony in Tibet. It shows Tibetan religious customs, arts, and many vanishing life styles.
While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
The stories, music and rituals of Tinku culture in the north of Potosí in Bolivia, are the perfect excuse for director Nina Wara Carrasco to return to the idyllic place of her childhood, where she faces the uneasiness of the passage of time and uprooting. In the Whisper of the Wind explores rituals where music is a balm and a link with the mystic.
carefully reconstructs the events in Bolivia between 1979 and 1982. Dark years. Speaking of Alberto Natush's coup d'etat, the massacre of Todos Santos, the murders of Luis Espinal and Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, the worker, peasant and student mobilizations, García Meza Tejada's coup d'etat and the return to the democratic process.
This is a look into the world of Guarani art that recreates the story of Kuriyuki and the return of bones to that sacred place.
The legend of the fox that ascended to the sky with the help of a condor and participated in a party. He was so happy that he ate everything and drank a lot. Then he didn't want to come back down to earth, and when he insulted some parrots, they cut the rope and the fox fell to the ground, scattering all the seeds of the foods we know today. Based on an oral tale.
Tenzin Banjue, a young Tibetan monk living in the temple, takes a long way back home for the first time to visit his brother who is in a vegetative state from falling off the cliff. Despite finding himself enamored by his brother's fiancée, he refuses his mother's offer to stay and marry her, who at the same time gets a marriage proposal from another man. Struggling between faith to his religion and truth to his heart of love, Tenzin, together with his brother and fiancée, takes on a soul searching journey of five thousand kilometers.
Third short film on Tibet, 'Murals and Stone Carvings of Lama Temple,' from Wen Pulin's Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art.
The best short film about Jesus during the pandemic.
Genoveva, 16, lives in a small Bolivian shithole of a town in the 80´s. Her obsession is time. For how long it takes an ant to cross a leaf from one side to the other or the time it takes for a glass of water to fill. In the loneliness of her adolescent days, her adolescent hours, her adolescent minutes, Geno tries to survive the nuns at school, her hostile classmates, her hopeless parents, and men with guns.
An eclipse begins the ritual. In an endless desert, two ancient peoples divided by a cleft in the earth gather to celebrate a unique and magical event: Tinkú. In the darkness of the eclipse, this ritual will require the greatest display of courage and strength: self-sacrifice.
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.
The documentary was shot on a trip to Bolivia after the October popular revolt that began with the opposition to the gas export project to the United States and ended with the resignations of President Sánchez de Losada and several ministers. The voices collected in the documentary provide information about the economic, political and social conditions of the country and suggest a more general reflection on the process of globalization and the role of multinationals in Latin American countries
Matías (23) must go to convince some Mapuche communities to recover territories that the Chilean state has stolen from them. During the trip they warn him that the police are following him. Before recovering the territory, Matías learns that one of his friends is giving information to the police.
Based on an unpublished novel by Jorge Sanjinés
1538. In the Inca empire a strange visitor has arrived. The messenger Sisco will give the news.
We follow Tashi, a young Buddhist monk on a journey home through the Himalayas, witnessing the present day life and customs of the Kingdom of Mustang, one of the best preserved traditional Tibetan communities in the world. It is a story of coming of age for Tashi, a story of a small nation struggling to keep its identity since opening of borders 22 years ago. A story of a conflict between spiritualism and materialism. Tashi, a young Buddhist monk faces the most important decision in his life - whether to devote his life to serving as a monk, or to leave the monastery and return to everyday life.
Located on the shores of the extinct Lake Poopó, the community of URU, Puñaca Tinta María, clings to its traditions and memories of the lost relationship with the lake. Now, faced with the challenge of climate change and the loss of their territory, they are forced to reinvent their ties, both internally and with the Aymara culture, to preserve their identity, of which they are deeply proud.
When a group of people with disabilities in Bolivia unite in protest for a pension, they never imagined what was to come. Trekking the Andes in their wheelchairs, they’re forced to confront a government that tries to silence them and a society indifferent to their struggle. La Lucha is a tribute to all those who fight for change.
Whore Revolution is led by members of the organizations OMESPRO La Paz and OMESPRO Santa Cruz; These become builders of a story that makes use of a symbolic lever to transfer the central discussions of the whore universe to a political and poetic space. The film is structured in four parts with their own entity, which together make up a piece that has the vocation and versatility to invade all types of spaces—except virtual ones. María Galindo turns the camera and questions the viewer: "Without money and without work... I want to see you in my place."
For many years, the Swiss photographer Jean-Claude Wicky captured the world of Bolivian miners in photographs. When he discovered how strongly they reacted to his pictures, he decided to make a film. Black-and-white photographs alternate with film sequences, in which the miners talk about the harsh conditions of their everyday lives, while also rendering visible their pride, dignity, culture and dynamic traditions. Every day is night is first and foremost a testimonial of profoundly sincere human encounters based on respect, generosity and gratitude.
A rural community in the Ecuadorian Andes suddenly faces a land dispute with the legal representatives of a large company. The discovery of very rich ore deposits in the territory is the reason of the offensive greedy on those places, where the community lived since immemorial times.
The Root of the Olive Tree tells the story of five Palestinians living far from their homeland who recount their experiences in the face of the intensification of the genocide and the Israeli occupation that has lasted more than 76 years. From afar, Watan, Omaima, Murid, Baylasan, and Bassel share stories of struggle, loss, and hope. Through their letters, their everyday life and memories—interwoven with the pain of being far away—they express their unwavering faith in a free future for Palestine, always with the constant support of Cuba, the country that has welcomed them.
A filmmaker and a Guarani Indian travel from La Paz to Bolivia’s swamps, exploring Guarani culture, ancient knowledge, and identity.
Lost in Bolivia's vast salt desert, a daring tourist battles nature's grip, seeking escape from a desolate realm. Will their journey transcend earthly bounds?
Pema's graduation film made for Beijing Film Academy, Set in rural Tibet ; it is a timeless allegory of an old nomadic couple searching for a stolen yak.
Set in the remote Andes of Bolivia, “Sayariy” records a mysterious annual tradition in which two mountain tribes face off in a bloody ceremonial fight known as Tinku.
With the high development of human civilization there is less and less pure land on the earth. The conflict between humans and nature keeps intensifying. Many primitive cultures and beliefs are gradually disappearing. "The Soul of Himalaya" is a story of the Lhoba people's legends and customs. The film portrays a warrior's journey to save an ancient tribe whose way of life is threatened.
Maria, a young girl diagnosed with autism, films a movie with her friends and her teacher. Equipped with cameras and microphones, the young people record interviews and diaries of their daily lives.
Compilation of 18 animated short films made by Spanish-speaking artists from around the world for the Filmoteca Maldita Short Film Festival. This collection contains very diverse works, both in technical and thematic aspects, although they all share a genuine spirit of dedication and creativity.
Mike and Alanna drove a motorbike and sidecar from Alaska to Argentina and interviewed 120 couples about how to stay together for life. They also subjected themselves to scientific tests, to see if their marriage would last. They found out the results at the end of the road...
In the Bolivian mountains, Aymara children attend a school that preserves their language and worldview. When they leave, they walk through the hills to work. Between the classroom and the land, childhood and adulthood intertwine under the early weight of work and collective heritage.
After several years a student returns to his native village only to find that despite the agrarian reform act of 1952, nothing has changed in the treatment of peasants, and racial discrimination continues.
Every afternoon, Benjamin Laredo creates the crossword puzzle that will appear in the newspaper the next day. One day, after delivering his work, he meets Dochera, a woman who makes him fall in love. Not knowing how to find her, he begins to leave hidden messages in crossword puzzles so that she can read them and they can meet again.
Some of the materials and studies that were made during 2015 for the conformation and creation of the short film New life. The selection, the re-appropriation and the montage of them, conform a new poetic that has a direct relation with the final work and at the same time opens a space that allows us to glimpse the creative process, transforming itself into a piece in itself. Materiales is like the B-side of another cinematographic work, as in the old 7-inch vinyl sigles.
On his first trip to the city, Panchito, a peasant boy, is lost in a fair in El Alto (Bolivia). Despite his efforts and those of the father, he ends up in an orphanage. During school civic hour, in which the more than a hundred years in which Bolivia lost the exit to the sea against Chile are remembered, he meets Pedro, a Chilean boy who lost his parents in Antofagasta (Chile). Panchito wants to return to his home in the countryside next to the father. Peter has the illusion that the sea is the immense blue door to the sky that will take him to his parents. This feeling unites them on a journey between the arid high plateau, with the whistle of the earthy wind, and the vigorous wind over the waves of the ocean. But fate is not always expected.
A portrait of Namdol Lhamo, a middle-aged Tibetan woman who lives in Brussels and works as a housekeeper in an old people's home. Lhamo is one of the famous Drapchi 14, a group of nuns imprisoned in the notorious Drapchi prison of Lhasa in the early 1990s for peacefully demonstrating against the Chinese occupation.
The journey back home has been a recurring narrative ever since humans started to tell stories. Because going back to one’s origins is always related to identity, a dilemma that never ceases to hit close to home
A short story of a man who accidentally loses his cellphone and is found by a person that will not return it and is unaware of the damage he could cause.
From inside Bolivia's craziest prison a cocaine worker, a drug mule and his little sister reveal the countries relationship with cocaine.
Nicola, a baker by trade, separated, with three children, decides to come out of the closet, a secret that he has kept for 38 years and that he has not told anyone. On this intimate journey we accompany Nicola from the very day he makes the decision, throughout the process, to tell his ex-wife, his family and finally to all of society.
Three stories intersect in a brutal lynching that occurred on June 1, 2013 in a town in the Bolivian tropics. Mario Vega, a prosecutor attached to judicial processes, tries to prevent the lynching of five young people from Villa Nogales, unjustly accused of stealing a truck. Miguel, the father, and Adrián, one of the young accused, join Mario to star in this story, which portrays what happens in many places in Bolivia, where "justice by one's own hands" claims many lives.
People with disabilities are amongst the most discriminated in Bolivia. Fed up with being ignored they embark on an unimaginable journey, marching 380km over the Andean mountains in their wheelchairs to speak with president Evo Morales. Yet they’re met with riot police, barricades, teargas and water cannons.
A wealthy executive seeks to take the wife of a humble cab driver, giving him a job in one of his companies and sending him on a trip to Bolivia in order to consummate his lust. Rejecting her affections, the businessman tries to abuse her, but her husband prevents him by shooting her and unleashing evil.