List of Bolivian films
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This is a list of films produced in Bolivia from the 1920s to present.
1920s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | ||||||
| Corazón Aymara | Pedro Sambarino | black and white, silent drama | considered to be the first Bolivian fiction feature film[1][2] | |||
| The Prophecy of the Lake | José Maria Velasco Maidana | black and white, silent romance | Bolivia's second completed fiction feature film; banned by the authorities for its social critique and its portrayal of a white woman in love with an indigenous man; never released[1] | |||
1930s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | ||||||
| Wara Wara | José Maria Velasco Maidana | Juanita Taillansier, Martha de Velasco, Arturo Borda, Emmo Reyes | black and white, silent, historical romance | the only known surviving work from Bolivia's silent-film era [3] | ||
| 1931 | ||||||
| Hacia la Gloria[1] | José Maria Velasco Maidana | |||||
1950s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | ||||||
| 1951 | ||||||
| 1952 | ||||||
| 1953 | ||||||
| Vuelve Sebastiana | Augusto Roca & Jorge Ruiz |
Luis Ramiro Beltrán, Sebastiana Kespi, Eduardo Lafaye, Esteban Lupi, Jean Vellard | Drama | |||
| 1954 | ||||||
| 1955 | ||||||
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1960s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | ||||||
| 1961 | ||||||
| 1962 | ||||||
| 1963 | ||||||
| 1964 | ||||||
| 1965 | ||||||
| 1966 | ||||||
| Ukamau | Jorge Sanjinés | Vicente Veneros Salinas, Elsa Antequera, Néstor Cárdenas, Benedicta Huanca | First feature film to use both Spanish and a native language (Aymara)[4] | |||
| 1967 | ||||||
| 1968 | ||||||
| Mina Alaska | Jorge Ruiz | Hugo Roncal, Chrysta Wagner, Charlie Smith | First Latin American film to be restored by the AMPAS Film Archive.[5] | |||
| 1969 | ||||||
| Yawar mallku | Jorge Sanjinés | |||||
1970s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | ||||||
| 1971 | ||||||
| El Coraje del pueblo | Jorge Sanjinés | |||||
| 1972 | ||||||
| 1973 | ||||||
| 1974 | ||||||
| 1975 | ||||||
| Andean Women | Norman Miller | |||||
| 1976 | ||||||
| Chuquiago | Antonio Eguino | |||||
| La chaskañawi | Hugo Cuellar Urizar, Jorge Cuellar Urizar, José Cuellar Urizar | |||||
| 1977 | ||||||
| 1978 | ||||||
| 1979 | ||||||
1980s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | ||||||
| 1981 | ||||||
| El celibato | Hugo Cuellar Urizar, José Cuellar Urizar | |||||
| 1982 | ||||||
| Mi socio | Paolo Agazzi | Entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| 1983 | ||||||
| 1984 | ||||||
| Amargo mar | Antonio Eguino | |||||
| Aymara Leadership | Hubert Smith | |||||
| Los Hermanos Cartagena | Paolo Agazzi | |||||
| 1985 | ||||||
| 1986 | ||||||
| Café con pan | Alfredo Ovando | |||||
| 1987 | ||||||
| 1988 | ||||||
| 1989 | ||||||
| La chola Remedios | Liliana De la Quintana, Alfredo Ovando | |||||
| La nación clandestina | Jorge Sanjinés | |||||
1990s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | ||||||
| 1991 | ||||||
| Los igualitarios | Juan Miranda | |||||
| 1992 | ||||||
| 1993 | ||||||
| 1994 | ||||||
| Jonás y la Ballena Rosada | Juan Carlos Valdivia | |||||
| 1995 | ||||||
| Cuestión de fe | Marcos Loayza | |||||
| Jonah and the Pink Whale | Juan Carlos Valdivia | |||||
| Para recibir el canto de los pájaros | Jorge Sanjinés | |||||
| 1996 | ||||||
| Alma (Ajayu) | Francisco Ormachea | |||||
| La despedida | Fernando Aguilar Vásquez | |||||
| 1997 | ||||||
| 1998 | ||||||
| El Día que Murió el Silencio | Paolo Agazzi | |||||
| 1999 | ||||||
| Calle de los poetas | Diego Torres Peñaloza | |||||
| Desempolvando nuestra historia | Alfredo Copa | |||||
| El camino de la costa | José Sánchez | |||||
2000s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | ||||||
| 2001 | ||||||
| Cierre de emisión | Javier Rivero | |||||
| El delirio | José Sánchez | |||||
| The Delirium | José Sánchez | |||||
| 2002 | ||||||
| 2003 | ||||||
| Sexual Dependency | Rodrigo Bellott | Alexandra Aponte, Roberto Urbina | Drama | |||
| El corazón de Jesús | Marcos Loayza | |||||
| 2004 | ||||||
| El atraco | Paolo Agazzi | |||||
| Los hijos del último jardín | Jorge Sanjinés | |||||
| 2005 | ||||||
| American Visa | Juan Carlos Valdivia | |||||
| Di buen día a papá | Fernando Vargas | |||||
| Sena/Quina, la inmortalidad del cangrejo | Paolo Agazzi | |||||
| Dioses domados | Enrique Aguilar | |||||
| Lo más bonito y mis mejores años | Martín Boulocq | |||||
| 2006 | ||||||
| ¿Quién mató a la llamita blanca? | Rodrigo Bellott | Erika Andia, Pablo Fernandez, Augustin Mendieta, Guery Sandoval, Miguel Valverde | Comedy | |||
| 2007 | ||||||
| Cocalero | Alejandro Landes | |||||
| Evo Pueblo | Tonchy Antezana | |||||
| Los Andes no creen en Dios | Antonio Eguino | |||||
| 2008 | ||||||
| Verse | Alejandro Pereyra | |||||
| Cementerio de Elefantes | Tonchy Antezana | |||||
| 2009 | ||||||
| Perfidia | Rodrigo Bellott | |||||
| Zona Sur | Juan Carlos Valdivia | |||||
| El regalo de Pachamama | Toshifumi Matsushita | |||||
| Rojo Amarillo Verde | Martin Boulocq, Sergio Bastani, Rodrigo Bellott | Patricia Garcia, Daniel Aguirre Camacho, Ismael Suárez, Diego Paesano, Lorena Sugier, Santiago Rozo | ||||
2010s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||||||
| En Busca Del Paraiso | ||||||
| 2011 | ||||||
| The Old People | Martín Boulocq | |||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| Insurgentes | Jorge Sanjinés | |||||
| Las bellas durmientes | Marcos Loayza | |||||
| 2013 | ||||||
| Once Upon a Time in Bolivia | Patrick Cordova | Luis Caballero, Miguel Angel Mamani, Ivan Nogales, Raul Beltran, Reynaldo Yuhra, Miguel Estellano | Drama | |||
| El olor de tu ausencia | Eddy Vázquez | |||||
| Yvy Maraey | Juan Carlos Valdivia | |||||
| Olvidados | Carlos Bolado | |||||
| 2015 | ||||||
| Sealed Cargo | Julia Vargas-Weise | |||||
| 2016 | ||||||
| Dark Skull | Kiro Russo | |||||
2020s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||||||
| Chaco | ||||||
| Pseudo | Rodrigo Patiño, Luis Reneo | Drama, Thriller | ||||
| 2021 | ||||||
| 2022 | ||||||
| The Ones from Below | Alejandro Quiroga | Fernando Arze Echalar, César Bordón, Luis Bredow, Sonia Parada | Western, Drama | |||
| Utama | Alejandro Loayza Grisi | Luisa Quispe, José Calcina, Santos Choque | Drama | |||
| The Visitor | Martín Boulocq | Enrique Araoz, Svet Mena, César Troncoso, Mirella Pascual, Teresa Gutierrez, Romel Vargas | Drama | |||
| Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village | César Galindo | Víctor Acuario, Hermelinda Luján, Melisa Álvarez, Alder Yaurisaca, Cosme Flores, Bernando Rosado, Juan Ubaldo Huaman | Comedy-drama | |||
| 2024 | ||||||
| Own Hand | Rodrigo Patiño | Alejandro Marañón, Freddy Chipana, Gonzalo Callejas, Christian Castillo, Raimundo Ramos, Victoria Suaznabar, Mauricio Toledo, Bernardo Rosado, Carlos Ureña | Thriller | |||
References
- ^ a b c "Wara Wara", The Bioscope
- ^ "El lago Titicaca ha fascinado a los cineastas una y otra vez" Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine, La Razón, July 3, 2009
- ^ "Bolivia's struggle to preserve its film heritage", BBC, October 29, 2010
- ^ "Unheard Voices: Cinema of Bolivia". Kuxa Kanema. MUBI. Archived from the original on 27 December 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
- ^ "Film Acquisition and Preservation Committee - Overview". LALIFF Website. Latino International Film Institute and Festival. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
Further reading
- José Sànchez-H.: The Art and Politics of Bolivian Cinema, Scarecrow Press 1999, ISBN 0-8108-3625-4