Bolivia Movies

'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...

Martín is a 13-year-old orphan shoeshine boy from La Paz, Bolivia, who has lived his entire life in the streets with the hope and desire to...

How are biographies charted? How is identity constructed? Can we relive our past, reinvent it, rearrange or recycle it? Can we really know who we are...

A schoolteacher in the small city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra has a passionate affair with his frigid wife's sister—despite the risk of having...

A short film that tells the story of Angelo – a queer youth who works as a shoeshiner in the streets of La Paz, Bolivia. Composed of brief...

Composed of 28 static-camera scenes from everyday (occupied)-Tibetan life, each picture (without narration) a "narrative" lasting several minutes,...

Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Cerro Rico mine.

Amir and Amat are invited to a trip into the South American rain forest, but the pleasant visit to Bolivia quickly takes a bizarre turn as Amat...

During a Bolivian dictatorship, Naty and her daughter Anita are held in a hacienda by soldiers who were looking for some guerrillas. 30 years later,...

The story of the friendship between a truck driver and a shoeshine boy who occasionally becomes his assistant when they travel together from the...

A visual essay about how Bolivia is seen in films from other countries.

2006: Evo Morales, first indigenous President is elected in Bolivia after the 2003 dramatic events following the fall of the President Sanchez de...

A humble small-town altar boy faces the consequences of watching gay porn on the church's computer.

The Uru communities of Bolivia have lived on Lake Poopó for generations. Faced with its disappearance, they must grapple with what it means to...

A plea against the government of General Hugo Banzer (1971-1978) and specifically against the Bolivian military during the seven-year dictatorship....

On his first trip to the city, Panchito, a peasant boy, is lost in a fair in El Alto (Bolivia). Despite his efforts and those of the father, he ends...

A young German/Bolivian Mennonite risks his life to escape his strict religious community to find love and freedom in the city.

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...

Raúl, an outcast taxi driver harassed by the Alfa Cab Company, seeks peace. In a chase, he accidentally crashes onto a homeless person....