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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.
- A Bolivian shoe-shiner with a missing left foot hears the voice of a mysterious man talking about an ancient rooster who knows where his left foot is buried.
- Documentary on the Bolivian social battle between the Cocaleros union and the American government against the backdrop of the Amazon Forest and the life and struggle of a Padre Antonio Berta in trying to rescue the conflict's orphans.
- On January 11, 2007, in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, thousands of workers and coca growers from rural areas united to express support for a centralized state, indigenous political power, and for the country's first indigenous president, Evo Morales. In response, thousands of middle and upper class residents attempted to violently thwart the activities of these indigenous groups. The result was a mini-civil war. Various factions armed with knives, golf clubs, and baseball bats collided in an afternoon of violence that left 160 people injured and 3 people dead. Juntos Estamos Divididos recounts the series of events of January 11, 2007 in Cochabamba through the use of never-before-seen news footage, interviews, and testimonials. By placing the violent confrontations in the context of Bolivia 's recent political transformation, Juntos Estamos Divididos shows how shifts in political power have affected race relations and the meaning of citizenship and democracy in Cochabamba and in the greater Bolivian nation.
- In the heart of Bolivia, in a broken-down and overcrowded prison located in the center of the city of Cochabamba, over a hundred children, innocent victims of the sins of their fathers, are forced to share with them the dramatic experience of imprisonment, spending the first years of their childhood in conditions of discomfort and serious danger. Stories of men and women, most of them, marked by misfortune. Convicted on the basis of the infamous anti-drug law 1008, wanted and imposed by the United States government, they end up paying very dearly the price of underdevelopment and poverty of a country that for many years lived under the grip of the military dictatorship first and then of bad governance. Jailed for working in the illegal coca plantations located in the tropical Chapare area, many of them, more often than not, are convicted because they are stopped with small quantities of coca paste that they naively lent themselves to transport to Cochabamba in sight of an easy as well as miserable gain.
- When Daniel Rosas decides going on a trip with his son Jorge, he starts bored about it, but as hours go by, they begin to enjoy each other company.
- This first documentary about Bolivian Jews provides a fascinating look at the rise and decline of the Jewish community in Cocachamba where the Jewish population is down from 2,000 to fewer than 100. With Jewish youth leaving reluctantly, and a lack of community organization, the film is both an intimate portrait of a community at risk of extinction, and a quest to create a contemporary Jewish identity.