Director
Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Composer
Cergio Prudencio
Cast
José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Santos Choque
Edition 2022
87'
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2022
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Drama
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Dialogue:
Spanish, Quechua
An elderly couple's struggle ruthless nature on a plateau in South America is given a grandiose cinematic translation. A dazzling debut.
In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily routine for years. When an uncommonly long drought threatens their entire way of life, Virginio and Sisa face the
dilemma of resisting or being defeated by the passage of time.
Everything is precipitated by the arrival of their grandson Clever,
who comes to visit with news.
In Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s astonishing feature debut, the three of
them will face, each in their own way, the environment, the necessity
for change, and the meaning of life itself.
“Photographer Alejandro Loayza Grisi makes a stunning transition to cinema in this portrait of an Indigenous couple threatened by drought on the Altiplano. They refuse to relocate to the nearby city of La Paz, even as mountain glaciers melt, rains become less reliable and their herd of llamas slowly succumb to dehydration.” - Variety
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Credits
Directors
Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Composers
Cergio Prudencio
Cast
José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Santos Choque
Scenario
Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Director of Photography
Barbara Alvarez
Editors
Fernando Epstein
Producers
Santiago Layza Grisi, Federico Moreira
Co producers
Jean-Baptiste Bailly-Maitre
Production studios
Alma Films, La Mayor Cine
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Dialogue
Spanish, Quechua
Countries of production
Bolivia, Uruguay, France
Year
2022
Filmography
Alejandro Loayza Grisi
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