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	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
1950
1951
1952
1953
Vuelve Sebastiana	Augusto Roca & Jorge Ruiz	Luis Ramiro Beltrán, Sebastiana Kespi, Eduardo Lafaye, Esteban Lupi, Jean Vellard	Drama
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959

1960s

Title	Director	Cast	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	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
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
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
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.

External links

Bolivian film at the Internet Movie Database

[wordpress1-1] "Wara Wara", The Bioscope

[2] "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

[3] "Bolivia's struggle to preserve its film heritage", BBC, October 29, 2010

[4] "Unheard Voices: Cinema of Bolivia". Kuxa Kanema. MUBI. Archived from the original on 27 December 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2012.

[5] "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.

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