UTAMA
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Portland Latin American Film Festival Presents: UTAMA
BOLIVIA, URUGUAY and FRANCE 2022 / 87 minutes
Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Drama / Quechua & Spanish with English subtitles / 87 min
AWARDS: Sundance 2022: World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. 37th Guadalajara Film Festival, Ibero- American Fiction Competition: Best Script, Best First Feature.
Synopsis: 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. Things change, however, with the arrival of their grandson Clever, who comes to visit with news. The three of them will face, each in their own way, the environment, the necessity for change, and the meaning of life itself, in this astonishing feature debut by Alejandro Loayza Grisi.