Cinemateca Nacional invites you to celebrate Bolivia Day with three films from the Altiplano

Published at: 06/08/2025 09:50 AM

The National Cinemateca Foundation and the Romulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies Foundation (CELARG) invited the public to enjoy three stories that come from the Bolivian Altiplano, from this Thursday, August 7, to Saturday, the 9th.

This Thursday 7th at 4:00 p.m., there will be a screening of “Juana Azurduy, guerrilla fighter from the Patria Grande” directed by Jorge Sanjinéz. In November 1825, in Chuquisaca, Juana Azurduy Bermúdez de Padilla, heroine of the war against the Spanish army, was visited by the liberators Simon Bolivar, Antonio José de Sucre and José Miguel Lanza.

In the courtyard of her humble room, marked by poverty and oblivion, she tells them her story: 16 years of fierce struggle against Spanish rule, of courage on the front lines, and of resistance as a woman in a world of men. Through her voice, the living memory of a feat that forged the continent's freedom is revealed.

On Friday, August 8, at 4:00 p.m., he will arrive at Cinemateca “Utama” directed by Alejandro Loayza, who says that in the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple lives the same daily life. During an unusually long drought, Virginio and his wife Sisa are faced with a dilemma: to resist or to be defeated by the environment and time itself.

Finally, on Saturday 9th, “American Visa”, directed by Juan Carlos Valdivia Flores, will meet to entertain the public. This film tells the life of a school teacher who wants to immigrate to the United States to join his son who is studying in Miami and when he is denied a Visa, he plans a robbery to get one on the black market. However, the appearance of Blanca (Kate del Castillo), an exotic dancer, changes her destiny.

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