The film thrives when it combines magical realism with gorgeously precise cinematography. According to Andean legend, when the condor, an imposing South American bird with a long lifespan, decides ...

Writer-director Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s debut feature follows an indigenous couple trying to survive in the arid climate of the Bolivian highlands. By Jordan Mintzer With Sundance moving online yet ...

Utama (Our Home) is precisely the sort of discovery that justifies film festivals and makes them useful: a small, hitherto unheard-of work from an out-of-the-way country that grabs you from the ...

You hear “Utama” before you see it: the sounds of wind interrupted suddenly by chimes tolling, underlying a simple black and white title treatment. The sound ushers us into the spectacular opening ...

The consequences of climate change and the loss of cultural traditions often go hand-in-hand in places like the Bolivian highlands. The film Utama captures this by following the daily lives of an ...

"If we leave, our land will be left alone in silence." Kino Lorber has revealed the official US trailer for a Bolivian drama titled Utama, which originally premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival ...

There’s a raw bond at the heart of “Utama,” a tie between man, family and land that’s fierce, tenuous and ultimately frail. The land is endangered, so is the man, so are we all. Virginio (Jose Calcina ...

In Bolivia’s official submission to the next Oscars, an old Quechua couple struggle to find water to sustain them, their crops and llamas. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Meditative drama follows non-professional leads playing a farming couple being driven from their home in the Andean plateau by global heating Bolivian director Alejandro Loayza Grisi started his ...