Au début du XXème siècle, Butch Cassidy et son ami Sundance Kid pillent les trains et les banques. Les deux malfrats élaborent un plan ingénieux qui leur permet de dévaliser deux fois le même convoi, mais les autorités sont sur leur piste. Le Kid retrouve son amie, Etta Place, une jeune institutrice, et Butch Cassidy improvise avec elle un brillant numéro à bicyclette. La seconde attaque de l'Union Pacific oblige les deux complices et Etta à abandonner leurs amis et à fuir en Bolivie. Là, ils poursuivent leurs exploits criminels et ce, malgré la défection de la jeune femme, effrayée par la tournure que prennent les événements.
Un groupe d'amis baroudeurs fait un périple dans la jungle bolivienne dans le but de trouver une tribu isolée du monde. Aidés d'un pseudo-aventurier appelé Karl, ils vont parcourir une partie des lieux alors encore inexplorée.
Un candidat à la présidence de la Bolivie à la cote de popularité en chute libre fait appel à une équipe de management américaine d'élite, dirigée par la compromise mais brillante stratégiste Jane "Calamity" Bodine. En pleine retraite forcée à la suite d'un scandale lui ayant valu son surnom et l'ayant profondément ébranlée, Jane se voit offrir la chance de battre son plus grand adversaire, le détestable Pat Candy, qui coache désormais l'opposition.
Les femmes d’une communauté religieuse isolée tentent de concilier leur réalité et leur foi. À travers leurs parcours respectifs, le film dévoile un groupe de femmes qui s'unissent pour aller de l’avant et construire ensemble un monde meilleur pour elles-mêmes et leurs enfants. Leurs options : rester et se battre, ou partir. Mais une chose est sûre, elles ne resteront pas sans rien faire.
Dans l'altiplano bolivien, Virginio et Sisa, un couple âgé de Quechuas qui mène une vie tranquille depuis des années, sont confrontés à un dilemme impossible pendant une sécheresse exceptionnellement longue : résister ou être vaincu par l'environnement hostile et le passage implacable du temps.
A community reacts against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in voiceover that reveals the collusion of the same concerns in the military dictatorship’s terror.
The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.
A documentary centered on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's (which was urged by the U.S.) effort eradicate coca crops, and the man who would come to represent them, Evo Morales.
Are tourists destroying the planet-or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visit, and how are they changed? From the Bolivian jungle to the party beaches of Thailand, and from the deserts of Timbuktu, Mali to the breathtaking beauty of Bhutan, GRINGO TRAILS traces stories over 30 years to show the dramatic long-term impact of tourism on cultures, economies, and the environment.
After being denied an American visa, a Bolivian professor becomes involved in a web of criminal activities, holds-up the American consulate and falls for a beautiful prostitute from the Bolivian lowlands.
An introvert city teenager is sent to his father's limber ranch. While trying to figure out his place as the son of the boss he finds himself in a world packed with naturalized violence.
'The Devil's Miner' tells the story of 14-year-old Basilio who worships the devil for protection while working in a Bolivian silver mine to support his family.
Young bootblack Tupah embarks on a frantic quest to find his uncle, Jacinto, lost in the Averno. In a dangerous journey through the underworld, myth and reality get endlessly intertwined and the death-loaded night in La Paz unveils the darkest and most surreal face of the imaginary of the Andes.
Danger, toil, and superstition pervade life in a mining town high up in the Bolivian mountains. Tin is the heartbeat of the community providing jobs and livelihoods - but at considerable cost. With deaths commonplace, people make offerings to El Tio, the devil under the earth, for protection and good fortune. But when the mountain's flow of tin ebbs, further measures must be taken...
A Bolivian by birth, who grew up with adoptive parents in the Swabian town of Mössingen, is looking for his family in the mountains of Potosí. Out of poverty, his mother gave the little boy away when he was just a few months old. The search carries a story that goes far beyond personal fate. Because Manuel was born in a region known for the ruthless exploitation of silver. It's a film about identity, homeland and equal opportunities.
Bernd, an insurance broker trainee, flees his mundane life in Germany to set a new World record in hang gliding in Bolivia.
His buildings are garish, colorful and completely overloaded. Columns and glittering chandeliers everywhere, and way too much of everything. The Bolivian civil engineer and architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre (*1971) builds houses in El Alto for a nouveau riche upper class of the Aymara, the largest indigenous ethnic group in Bolivia.