Den unge, israeliske Yossi Ghinsberg lämnar en trygg framtid bakom sig för följa en osannolik dröm som för honom in i Amazonas regnskogs mystiska djup. Under ett års tid gör han en resa som många innan honom har gjort men när han blir bekant med två andra äventyrare, Kevin Gale och Marcus Stamm och de tre möter den mörka och karismatiske Karl Ruchprecter följer de med honom in i djungeln. Vad som börjar som förverkligandet av en dröm förvandlas snart till ett hemskt och psykologiskt test av förtroende och mod. Den sanna historien om att överleva mot alla odds, baserad på Yossi Ghinsbergs memoarer.
En film om de legendariska bankrånarna Butch Cassidy och Sundance Kid, och deras flykt undan rättvisan som tar dem ända till Bolivia.
Göra inget. Stanna och slåss. Eller lämna. Kvinnorna i ett isolerat religiöst samhälle ställs inför dessa val när brutala händelser ställs mot deras tro.
En misslyckad boliviansk presidentkandidat tar ett amerikanskt team till hjälp, och det leds av ”Calamity” Jane Bodine, en illa tilltygad men briljant strateg. Hennes värsta fiende, den förhatlige Pat Candy, arbetar åt den andra kandidaten. Kampen mellan de båda sidorna blir såväl hård som smutsig. Filmen har baserats på dokumentären från 2005 med samma namn.
In the Bolivian altiplano, Virginio and Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple who have lived a quiet life for years, face an impossible dilemma during an unusually long drought: resist or be defeated by the hostile environment and the relentless passage of time.
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.
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.
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.
The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.
A community reacts against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
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.
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.
2006: Evo Morales, first indigenous President is elected in Bolivia after the 2003 dramatic events following the fall of the President Sanchez de Lozada (exiled in the U.S. since then). The socialist revolution enters in its crucial stage. But dealing with power carries a burden of temptations and pathologies. In four years of shooting between Bolivia and the US this film focus on the difficult path of this unique historical opportunity. The film ends with the recent TIPNIS dramatic indigenous protest which creates an historical circle.
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.
The film tells the story of a girl who arrives in the city with her young son and must take care of an old house where an elf lives. One day the child disappears mysteriously, which will motivate his mother to do the impossible to recover it.