List of Bolivian films
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This is a list of films produced in Bolivia from the 1920s to present.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | ||||||
| Corazón Aymara | Pedro Sambarino | black and white, silent drama | considered to be the first Bolivian fiction feature film[1][2] | |||
| The Prophecy of the Lake | José Maria Velasco Maidana | black and white, silent romance | Bolivia's second completed fiction feature film; banned by the authorities for its social critique and its portrayal of a white woman in love with an indigenous man; never released[1] | |||
1930s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | ||||||
| Wara Wara | José Maria Velasco Maidana | Juanita Taillansier, Martha de Velasco, Arturo Borda, Emmo Reyes | black and white, silent, historical romance | the only known surviving work from Bolivia's silent-film era [3] | ||
| 1931 | ||||||
| Hacia la Gloria[1] | José Maria Velasco Maidana | |||||
1950s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | ||||||
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| 1953 | ||||||
| Vuelve Sebastiana | Augusto Roca & Jorge Ruiz | Luis Ramiro Beltrán, Sebastiana Kespi, Eduardo Lafaye, Esteban Lupi, Jean Vellard | Drama | |||
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1960s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1966 | ||||||
| Ukamau | Jorge Sanjinés | Vicente Veneros Salinas, Elsa Antequera, Néstor Cárdenas, Benedicta Huanca | First feature film to use both Spanish and a native language (Aymara)[4] | |||
| 1967 | ||||||
| 1968 | ||||||
| Mina Alaska | Jorge Ruiz | Hugo Roncal, Chrysta Wagner, Charlie Smith | First Latin American film to be restored by the AMPAS Film Archive.[5] | |||
| 1969 | ||||||
| Yawar mallku | Jorge Sanjinés | |||||
1970s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | ||||||
| 1971 | ||||||
| El Coraje del pueblo | Jorge Sanjinés | |||||
| 1972 | ||||||
| 1973 | ||||||
| 1974 | ||||||
| 1975 | ||||||
| Andean Women | Norman Miller | |||||
| 1976 | ||||||
| Chuquiago | Antonio Eguino | |||||
| La chaskañawi | Hugo Cuellar Urizar, Jorge Cuellar Urizar, José Cuellar Urizar | |||||
| 1977 | ||||||
| 1978 | ||||||
| 1979 | ||||||
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||||||
| En Busca Del Paraiso | ||||||
| 2011 | ||||||
| The Old People | Martín Boulocq | |||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| Insurgentes | Jorge Sanjinés | |||||
| Las bellas durmientes | Marcos Loayza | |||||
| 2013 | ||||||
| Once Upon a Time in Bolivia | Patrick Cordova | Luis Caballero, Miguel Angel Mamani, Ivan Nogales, Raul Beltran, Reynaldo Yuhra, Miguel Estellano | Drama | |||
| El olor de tu ausencia | Eddy Vázquez | |||||
| Yvy Maraey | Juan Carlos Valdivia | |||||
| Olvidados | Carlos Bolado | |||||
| 2015 | ||||||
| Sealed Cargo | Julia Vargas-Weise | |||||
| 2016 | ||||||
| Dark Skull | Kiro Russo | |||||
2020s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||||||
| Chaco | ||||||
| Pseudo | Rodrigo Patiño, Luis Reneo | Drama, Thriller | ||||
| 2021 | ||||||
| 2022 | ||||||
| The Ones from Below | Alejandro Quiroga | Fernando Arze Echalar, César Bordón, Luis Bredow, Sonia Parada | Western, Drama | |||
| Utama | Alejandro Loayza Grisi | Luisa Quispe, José Calcina, Santos Choque | Drama | |||
| The Visitor | Martín Boulocq | Enrique Araoz, Svet Mena, César Troncoso, Mirella Pascual, Teresa Gutierrez, Romel Vargas | Drama | |||
| Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village | César Galindo | Víctor Acuario, Hermelinda Luján, Melisa Álvarez, Alder Yaurisaca, Cosme Flores, Bernando Rosado, Juan Ubaldo Huaman | Comedy-drama | |||
| 2024 | ||||||
| The Dog Thief | Vinko Tomičić | Franklin Aro, Alfredo Castro, María Luque, Julio César Altamirano, Ninon Davalos, Teresa Ruiz, Kleber Aro Huasco, Vladimir Gonza Mamani, Jhoselyn Rosmery Cosme, Wolframio Sinué, Felix Francisco Omonte Vargas, Iván Cori Mamani, Raúl Montecinos Heredia | Drama | Nominated - Best International Narrative Feature at the 23rd Tribeca Film Festival[6][7][8]
Nominated - Best Ibero-American Fiction Feature Film at the [9] Winner - New Actor - Special Mention for Franklin Aro at the 39th Guadalajara International Film Festival[10] Nominated - CineVision Award at the 41st Filmfest München[11] Nominated - Best Picture at the 28th Lima Film Festival[12] Winner - Special Jury Prize at the 28th Lima Film Festival[13] Nominated - Best Film in the International Competition at the 20th Santiago International Film Festival[14] Nominated - Best Performance for Franklin Aro in the International Competition at the 20th Santiago International Film Festival[14] Nominated - Best International Feature Film at the 61st Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival[15] Winner - Best Director in the International Competition & Best Actor for Franklin Aro at the 61st Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival[15] Nominated - Latin-American Competition - Best Film at the 39th Mar del Plata International Film Festival[16] Nominated - Best Fiction Feature Film at the 45th Havana Film Festival[17] Winner - Best Screenplay at the 45th Havana Film Festival[17] Nominated - Best Latin-American Film at the 30th Forqué Awards[18][19] Winner - Best Latin-American Film at the 28th Málaga Film Festival[20][21] Nominated - MARIMBAS Award at the Miami Film Festival[22][23] Winner - Best Ibero-American Debut Film at the 12th Platino Awards[24] Nominated - Film and Values Education at the 12th Platino Awards[25] Nominated - Best Ibero-American Film at the 67th Ariel Awards[26] An international co-production with Ecuador, Chile, Mexico, France and Italy[27] Premiered on October 17[28] | ||
| Own Hand | Rodrigo Patiño | Alejandro Marañón, Freddy Chipana, Gonzalo Callejas, Christian Castillo, Raimundo Ramos, Victoria Suaznabar, Mauricio Toledo, Bernardo Rosado, Carlos Ureña | Thriller | |||
| The Southern House | Carina Oroza Daroca, Ramiro Fierro | Grisel Quiroga, Piti Campos, Arwen Delaine, Alejandra Lanza, Cristian Mercado, David Mondacca | Drama | |||
